Type Operators *: range error (overflow)

Another possibility aside from recursion overflow (the more obvious one - I'm missing the forrest for the trees here) is that the number is just too big for whatever datatype MetaCard is using to represent numbers. I don't know how you get around this one though, short of using a CPS'd function as an XCMD. There *might* be a way to split the number up into smaller units, and then combine them at the end in some way, but I have no idea how - I'm thinking of the "Saturn" BCD architecture used by some calculators, and the recursive fast-multiply algorithm for multiplying truly huge numbers (hundreds or thousands of digits each..)


Jim

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