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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 14:01:37 +0100
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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).

<snip>
-- 
Ben.