On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:11:23PM +0100, Florian G. Pflug wrote:
> You'd need a type for large integers first - otherwise your
> ty_fraction will be quite limited. I think numeric could be
> used for that, though I don't know if numeric guarantees that
> at least the operators +,-,* and modulo return exact results
> (Don't loose digits). But even if they do, using some existing
> library for arbitrary sized integers would probably lead to
> better performance.
Numeric is an arbitrary sized number library, so using that would be
smart.
Have a nice day,
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