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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bignumber conversion and arithmetic on unsigned operand pairs using +,-,* now work in anybase.
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2015 20:52:19 +0100
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jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:

> Den måndag 22 juni 2015 kl. 02:20:01 UTC+2 skrev Ben Bacarisse:
>> jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:
<snip>
>> > And i who thought you would be impressed by the nifty way i do the
>> > baseconversion.
>> > It is probalistic.
>> 
>> The only curious things is why you don't do it the simple way.
<snip>
> Well if your simple way really did work,

It does.

> why do you think there is no
> other javascript or program on the net that can transform a 100 digit
> number into an 8 digit base.

https://github.com/silentmatt/javascript-biginteger/blob/master/biginteger.js

It does not do exactly what you asked for, but the reasons why it does
not do that are worth considering.

-- 
Ben.