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Re: Additions to the gh_ interface.


Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com> writes:

> I have a question, though: what do people need bignums for?  Aside
> from handling the occasional fixnum overflow, and making the numeric
> system prettier, that is.  What applications benefit from bignums?

I bet crypotography applications would benefit from fast bignums, for
example.

-russ


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