I'm not sure what you're asking (or whether I can help). If by footprint,
you mean printed representation, then using base 16, 32, 64, etc with
ascii or unicode symbols will work. If you mean computer memory space,
then you either have to give up on representing all numbers uniquely,
which is what exponential notation does, or you have to just accept the
memory hit and use bignums, as in LISP.
Brent Meeker
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok obviously REBOL has limitation with very big numbers. However,
> with the kind of calculations I want to make alot of software will
> have limitations. I'm looking to pick some brains for an alternative
> to scientific notation. I like scientific notation as it represents
> large numbers in a compact manner however; in my case, I have large
> numbers and want to represent a very large number in the smallest
> footprint possible. Scientific Notation doesnt acheive that with the
> type of numbers I will be calculating. Any mathmatics gurus have any
> ideas? References to where I can find out about the notations would
> be helpful also.
>
>
> Paul Tretter
>
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