Hi,
Just a crazy idea ... what about if the exponent is a big integer as well? And the mantissa ... guess you can go all crazy, hope this is supported by the library!
My main point against this idea would be that this might drop performance a lot.
I think, that with speicalization that should at least be possible have special, high performance implementations for e.g. int32 and int64 as exponent. With the type of the exponent as a template parameter that sould work well. Christof -- okunah gmbh Software nach Maß Werner-Haas-Str. 8 www.okunah.de 86153 Augsburg cd@okunah.de Registergericht Augsburg Geschäftsführer Augsburg HRB 21896 Christof Donat UStID: DE 248 815 055