"Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said this in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > er... why not > > Digits = Length((string)Number) ? > > > > or is this too fiendishly complicated ? > 1. It requires a language with native support for bignums (or rewriting the > expression into using a bignum library). > 2. It is dead slow, having to actually calculate the entire number (in our > case, often tens of millions of digits) just to get its length. Ok, fair point well made, but the original questioner asked to calculate the number of digits in a number "randomly entered from the keyboard", which seemed like a question looking for a facetious answer. So I gave it ... Jason _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
