* [Phys-L] I need big
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/From/: "Roberto Carabajal" <rcarabaj@copelnet.com.ar
<mailto:rcarabaj%40copelnet.com.ar>>//
* /Date/: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:16:58 -0300//
Please, can you recommend a programming language implementation such can
deal with arbitrary real numbers length (no Maple nor Mathematica) in a
simple way (native) ?
Thanks very much.
Roberto
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Since the demise of the earliest commercial processors such
as IBM 1620, 1401 etc. and Honeywell 200 series systems which offered
native arbitrary length integer operations in their modestly sized 9 bit
word length Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) organized memories,
arbitrary length arithmetic (aka bignum arithmetic) is instead offered
by software languages such as Haskell, Lisp, Perl, Python and Ruby,
some of which offer free downloads and freely available tutorial
materials.