BigNumber class

HuhOiC · March 1st, 2005, 05:13 AM

Does anyone know if .NET has a class that allows you to create numbers of unlimited size. If so what would the class name be called and the namespace it is located in.

Thank you in advance,

RAyRAy

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Huh O i C

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Kep · March 8th, 2005, 06:21 PM

I'm pretty certain that there are NO programming languages that have a class that allows numbers of unlimited size (I'd be interested to hear different).

You'd have to create one for yourself but I imagine it would be pretty cumbersome to manage.

It is impossible to have "unlimited", you'd always be restricted by the amount of memory the computer had.

Kep.

mehdi62b · March 10th, 2005, 07:48 AM

a sort of things you want,

Code:

class Unlimited
{
  Unlimited unlimited=new Unlimited();
  //...
}

and you would receive StackOverFlow exception!

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HuhOiC · March 12th, 2005, 03:33 AM

Well I didn't mean unlimited. What I actually meant with constraints of the hardware for a given machine. I knew I should have explained it when I was writing it and that someone or several people would bring up this issue. It's of course obvious you can't unlimited anything in the real physical world.

Anyways to make a short question longer for you people. Is there any class in .NET that will let you create a number with the limits of a given hardware on that machine or any machine connected to it or any medium that will be connected to it for storage in which you can share resources through clustered computers so you can do basic manipulation of that number?

In Java it's basically the BigNumber class and it seems as though it's specifically architectured for cryptography where you have all the methods necessary for RSA, AES, etc.

Anyways long question short create a larger size number than 64bits, which you can specify within limit of hardware of course ;). So ie I want a 1024 bit number or whatever.

RAyRAy
Huh O i C

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mehdi62b · March 15th, 2005, 08:10 AM

fo n bits,you can make a new struct,and consider some integer fields within and implement its basic operations yourself..

(not an efficient way just a possibility)

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