17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Sherry Mayo writes:
Can anyone point me to any books, documentation or whatever that will explain the methods used in routines like bignum for doing sums with 'too-big' numbers.
I'm having a tough time trying to figure it out from the code ;-(
The best book to read is, of course, Volume 2 of Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming". Many of the algorithms in use today are a bit snazzier but Knuth explains all the general principles of how such things are done.
BTW, any good hacker should own all three published volumes. Its *the* classic.
Perry
Volume 4 should be in print shortly.