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Re: Overflow, integers and strings

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From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject Re: Overflow, integers and strings
Date Mon, 04 May 2015 15:41:41 +0100
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jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:

> Den måndag 4 maj 2015 kl. 16:28:09 UTC+2 skrev Ben Bacarisse:
>> jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> > Den måndag 4 maj 2015 kl. 15:01:44 UTC+2 skrev Ben Bacarisse:
>> >> jonas.thornvall@gmail.com writes:
>> >> <snip>
>> >> > This is only an outline / pseudocoe for how the base conversion would
>> >> > look with bignumb implementation will look. You have to check the
>> >> > arrays so they contain intergers and not chars, that is probably what
>> >> > fail in first loop.
>> >> 
>> >> There is no value in using a bugnum for the base in a bignum
>> >> implementation.  This whole part of the project is a waste of time
>> >> (unless you just want learn ECMAScript programming but that seems
>> >> unlikely).
>> >
>> > I can see that the implementation faster multiplying in base 2048
>> > rather than base 2, although it right now cause overflows if number
>> > outside integer scope for all bases other than 10.
>> 
>> I can't follow this.
>> 
>> > I will fix that though, and that it will becom apparent when
>> > multiplying big numbers which approach is faster.
>> >
>> > Binary base or bignumb base.
>> >
>> > That is a fact.
>> 
>> What is a fact?  Do you think that using a base that is itself a bignum
>> will help in some way?
>> 
>> -- 
>> Ben.
>
> No the magnitude of the base will help.

Do you have any evidence for that?  What is the optimal base to use?

-- 
Ben.

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Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 00:11 -0700
  Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 01:29 -0700
    Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 03:31 -0700
    Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 03:33 -0700
      Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-30 13:38 +0200
        Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 08:20 -0700
          Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-04-30 20:37 +0200
            Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 23:46 -0700
              Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 01:01 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 01:47 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-01 10:50 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 02:04 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-01 11:08 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 04:43 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 04:46 -0700
              Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-01 10:48 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-01 10:58 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-01 14:34 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-01 14:47 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-01 15:04 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 06:18 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 06:24 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 06:49 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 07:00 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 07:17 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 07:21 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 07:37 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 11:27 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 12:34 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-01 22:42 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-01 23:37 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-02 00:19 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-02 05:50 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-02 14:21 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-03 04:30 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-03 07:12 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-03 16:45 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-03 09:17 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-03 09:22 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 03:38 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-04 14:01 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 06:41 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-04 15:39 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 07:48 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 06:49 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 07:25 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 08:26 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 08:59 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-05 00:59 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-04 15:28 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 07:34 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-04 15:41 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 07:52 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 08:03 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 17:56 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 09:04 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 09:21 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 09:38 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 21:07 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 12:25 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 21:43 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 12:46 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 22:11 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 12:53 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 22:23 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:40 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 23:12 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:06 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 22:39 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:42 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 13:40 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:47 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 23:30 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-04 23:33 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 15:53 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:51 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 18:00 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 18:22 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-05-04 21:38 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 18:37 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 14:00 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 09:19 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 21:24 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings wolfgang zeidler <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-04 21:37 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 21:56 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 13:21 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings wolfgang zeidler <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-04 22:38 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 22:46 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-04 22:57 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 23:17 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-05 00:45 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-06 00:01 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-05 08:14 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-05-05 23:54 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings wolfgang zeidler <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-05-04 23:18 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-04 23:53 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 16:06 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-05 10:26 +0200
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Dr J R Stockton <reply1500@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-05-05 19:59 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-04 07:40 -0700
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-05 01:10 +0100
                Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-05-01 05:03 -0700
        Re: Overflow, integers and strings Ben Bacarisse <ben.lists@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-30 20:36 +0100
          Re: Overflow, integers and strings jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-30 13:08 -0700
  Re: Overflow, integers and strings Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2015-04-30 10:52 -0700

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