On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Henry Rich <[email protected]> wrote: > As you can see, long integers are stored in base-10000 representation. > I don't know why, but I'd guess it makes multiplication faster.
I think it makes formatting faster. Also, using a fraction of a machine word does make multiplication reasonably straightforward, even in C which does not give the programmer access to the hardware elements normally provided for extended arithmetic. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
