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Re: Javascript comparissons cause overflow

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jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:

> Den lördag 4 april 2015 kl. 09:35:04 UTC+2 skrev jonas.t...@gmail.com:
>> After i managed to write some functions actually doing arithmetic in
>> bignumbers, basicly by handling them as strings where digit places
>> read into an array.
>> 
>> I decided to try change a previously written basechanger into also
>> handling bignumbs. And it proved to be a much harder task than i
>> origially thought.
>> 
>> How do you go from compare size of integers to compare size of
>> stored digitplaces in arrays?

I can't interpret this question.  Comparing bignums should not be hard.

<snip>
> This is probably why bignumb should be supported right out of the box
> in programming languages.

Many languages have unbounded integers and/or some other form of bignum
built-in (even more have them as a library extension but that can be
less convenient).  Is there a reason you have to use javascript?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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Javascript comparissons cause overflow jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-04 00:34 -0700
  Re: Javascript comparissons cause overflow jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-04 00:47 -0700
    Re: Javascript comparissons cause overflow Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-04 16:01 +0100
  Re: Javascript comparissons cause overflow John Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2015-04-04 17:44 +0100

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