--- Cromwell Enage wrote:
The two missing pieces wrt full functionality are division and human-readable output. The latter is easier to tackle but will most likely require a corresponding runtime big-integer class.
Did I say human-readable output was easier to tackle? What was I thinking? Division, modulus, and even GCD are now usable wrt big_integral and unsigned_big_integral. I still don't see a way to avoid recursion, so certain parameters will cause GCD to go deeper than any compiler can currently handle. (Try adjusting BOOST_MPL_LIMIT_UNROLLING and see if that improves the situation.) However, you can now extract the rational/fractional part of any double without running afoul of this gotcha.
Is anybody (e.g. Christopher Diggins) still working on one? If so, I might use it as a value_type.
In the next version I'll use "long double" as a stub value_type until Boost assimilates a run-time big integer class/library. Cromwell D. Enage __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com