From owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Wed Aug 24 08:20 PDT 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET (relay2.UU.NET [192.48.96.7]) by ar.com (8.6.9/8.6.5) with ESMTP id IAA10560 for <wessorh@ar.com>; Wed, 24 Aug 1994 08:20:58 -0700 Received: from toad.com by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP id QQxeiv09436; Wed, 24 Aug 1994 11:15:13 -0400 Received: by toad.com id AA11441; Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:47 PDT Received: from newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za by toad.com id AA11434; Wed, 24 Aug 94 08:08:28 PDT Received: by newdaisy.ee.und.ac.za (Smail3.1.28.1 #12) id m0qdJvP-0007VlC; Wed, 24 Aug 94 17:07 GMT+0200 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 17:07:36 +0200 (GMT+0200) From: Alan Barrett <barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za> Subject: Re: Brands cash To: Hal <hfinney@shell.portal.com> Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Length: 332

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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)

I'm in the process of adding the mpi library that comes with PGP in perl, Perl is fairly extensible... I just figured that it would be a good common ground for codeing... -Rick