From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada.Numerics.Big_Numbers.Big_Integer has a limit of 300 digits? Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 17:01:56 +0000 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="27620"; posting-host="Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 Content-Language: en-GB X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:63239 List-Id: On 22/12/2021 05:57, Michael Ferguson wrote: > I just started using the Big_Integer library that is a part of the 202X version of ADA. > > It is repeatedly described as an "arbitrary precision library" that has user defined implementation. > > I was under the impression that this library would be able to infinitely calculate numbers of any length, but there is clearly a default limit of 300 digits. What are you doing that requires that number of digits?