There are quite a few ways around this program. The most powerful (IMHO) is
a set of public domain BigNum functions that let you represent arbitrarily
large integers. I'll email you an attachment which contains all the
functions.
Regards,
Alan Ingleby
"Aaron Ardiri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:55746@palm-dev-forum...
>
> > I don't think Int32 will be enough. I need to be able
> > to deal with 10^15 and 10^(-15). What can I use for
> > that?
>
> not much?
>
> you might want to check out some articles/papers written on
> mathemetics using computers - i am sure there are some IEEE
> papers where people have done what you want. time to start
> searching for information :)
>
> if you want very high level precision using a float/double may
> not be sufficient :) good luck. :) but, try a double - its the
> best that the device can give you right now :)
>
> however, it is only accurate to a certain point :)
>
> ie: (0.0002 --> may convert to 0.000199999999 internally) :P
>
> you need to ask yourself if losing precision like this is ok,
> and your dealing with the worse type of math operations.. the
> '/' and '^' :)
>
> good luck :)
>
> // az
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ardiri.com/ <--- free games!
>
>
>
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