
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 12:30:27AM +0100, Marcin KaliciXski wrote:
Tracking the disussion on n1774 'Big integer library proposal for C++0x' I see there is a lot of controversy about it, and it will probably need much tweaking before (if ever) it is accepted.
Wouldn't that be a good idea to have a big integer added to boost so that we can create a 'working practice' before anything gets standarised?
I have some preliminary source code, some spare time, and would volunteer to work on it if there's enough interest.
The replies indicated some interest in arbitrary long integer / arbitrary precision arithmetic among Boost users and developers. Today I got a call for participation in the `"many digits" friendly competition 2005' organized by Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. To quote from the call for participation: In the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen we will organise a demo/benchmark session for investigating the state of the art in the various implementations of exact real arithmetic. The event will be held on 3-4 October 2005, in conjunction with the Small TYPES workshop on Constructive analysis, types and exact real numbers <http://www.cs.ru.nl/fnds/typesreal/>. I don't have time to pursue this myself but those interested in the topic might also be interested in this event - maybe not with an own submission, but to learn from the experiences others made while implementing arbitrary precision arithmetic. The complete call for participation is available at <url:http://www.cs.ru.nl/~milad/manydigits/CFPar.txt>. Regards Christoph -- http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/cludwig.html LiDIA: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/Welcome.html