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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 -- Linus's Law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. -- Eric S. Raymond