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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Catching overflow |
| Date | 2018-02-26 00:35 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <87efl8two2.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
| References | <p6vf4p$ot1$1@dont-email.me> |
jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> writes: > I want to do the computation of catalan numbers in 480 bits (my qfloat > extension to C) Are approximate values OK? I'm not sure what role floating point is going to play here. > But I would like to do as much calculations in 128 bits only (at the > start of the series) as possible. > > Possible means until before the computation overflows. > > How can I know if a multiplication will overflow in 128 bits? > > Let's see: > > I want to know when > > A x B > pow(2,128) > > (A and B < pow(2,64), unsigned long long data) Is that a typo? If A and B are both < pow(2,64), A*B will not be > pow(2,128). <snip> -- Ben.
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Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-25 23:59 +0100
Re: Catching overflow David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-26 00:32 +0100
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 01:45 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-26 00:35 +0000
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 01:44 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-26 01:25 +0000
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 10:53 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-26 15:21 +0000
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 18:36 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-02-26 22:55 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-02-26 21:59 -0800
Re: Catching overflow David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-02-27 09:30 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-03-03 02:17 -0800
Re: Catching overflow Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-03 03:19 -0800
Re: Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-03-03 03:20 -0800
Re: Catching overflow Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-03 03:50 -0800
Re: Catching overflow David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-03-04 13:48 +0100
Re: Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-03-04 07:11 -0800
Re: Catching overflow Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-03-11 09:21 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-03-11 09:26 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-03-26 22:36 -0700
Re: Catching overflow David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-03-27 15:15 +0200
Re: Catching overflow Steven Petruzzellis <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-27 06:26 -0700
Re: Catching overflow Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-02-27 19:41 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-02-27 20:14 +0000
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-27 22:03 +0100
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 18:40 +0100
Re: Catching overflow Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2018-02-26 18:31 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-01 08:45 -0800
Re: Catching overflow bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-02-26 01:12 +0000
Re: Catching overflow Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2018-02-25 23:10 -0500
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Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-02-25 23:31 -0800
Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-02-28 00:03 -0800
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Re: Catching overflow "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2018-02-26 23:37 +0800
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 18:33 +0100
Re: Catching overflow "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2018-02-28 22:31 +0800
Re: Catching overflow "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2018-02-28 22:33 +0800
Re: Catching overflow already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-03-01 02:31 -0800
Re: Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-03-01 05:45 -0800
Re: Catching overflow already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-03-01 08:24 -0800
Re: Catching overflow asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2018-03-01 09:03 -0800
Re: Catching overflow Steve Carroll <frelwizzen@gmail.com> - 2018-03-01 09:32 -0800
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-03-01 19:47 +0100
Re: Catching overflow already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-03-01 10:58 -0800
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-03-01 20:08 +0100
Re: Catching overflow already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-03-01 11:14 -0800
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-03-01 20:50 +0100
Re: Catching overflow already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-03-01 12:18 -0800
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Re: Catching overflow jladasky@itu.edu - 2018-02-26 13:07 -0800
Re: Catching overflow jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-02-26 22:44 +0100
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