Hi out there …
Has anyone ever thought about implementing arbitrary precision math in a fast and elegant way? Critical with respect to speed is definitely division and square root, just to name a few. Just wanted to know if someone else is playing around with that, or if I am the only one …
It has been suggested that BigNum and BigRat be added - I don’t know if that covers your use case, especially the ‘fast’ part.
http://oss.digirati.com.br/luabignum/
I don’t know that there are any firm plans to do so, but I don’t think they’d be an issue.
Thanks @Bortels. I guess I will continue my exercise to write own functions. This allows me then to learn more about the string functions of Lua… So it’s good exercise for me. As I can see, nobody else is as crazy as me to play around with that stuff Well, there is no particular use or even reason behind that, except the crazy thing to calculate “e” up to 200 digits or so … Why? Well, why not?