Re: Question on large integer software

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Jay Sulzberger (jays@panix.com)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 04:47:15 -0400 (EDT)

One of the charming things about most Schemes is that doing

> (* 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 777777777777777)

gives back

;Evaluation took 0 mSec (0 in gc) 7 cells work, 0 env, 132 bytes other
864197530864196666666666666666666666666666666666666666580246913580247

where ">" is the Scheme prompt.

http://www.schemers.org

is a good jump point. The above output is from SCM, Aubrey Jaffer's very
fine Scheme interpreter. Other Scheme implementations I like are STk,
DrScheme, Guile, and Kawa, whose target language is Java.

Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>

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