On Thu, March 22, 2007 2:33 pm, Tijnema ! wrote:
>> > 2).  How do you handle numbers that large, while maintaining
>> precision.
>>
>> keep them as strings - and/or use a 64bit machine?
>
> a 64bit machine would make the number larger, not unlimited :)

Even GMP (or BC) isn't unlimited...

It's just limited to the number of bytes you have in RAM/swap. :-)

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