On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Danny Sauer wrote:

> Peter wrote regarding 'Re: [EE] Big numbers' on Thu, Apr 20 at 14:05:
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, YAP wrote:
>>
>>> What is 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF (128 bits) in decimal?  How go a
>>> head an calculate big numbers like this.
>>
>> plp@plp:~$ bc -l
>> bc 1.06
>
> Somewhat interestingly, this led me to find that perl apparently can't
> cope with hex numbers greater than 32 bits on my 32-bit processor,
> even with the bignum module loaded...

There is a bc module for PHP

Peter
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