17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Unfortunately, I don't think perl is suitable, as it has no facilities for multiprecision arithmetic.
There is some multiprecision arithmetic in perl, but it's implemented as user-level functions, not as a builtin feature. Look at the bigint.pl, bigrat.pl and bigfloat.pl packages supplied with perl4. --apb (Alan Barrett)