can Rev handle big numbers?

[Dar Scott]

On May 21, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Does any one knows if Rev has some limit for number crunching? like 
> working with really big ints and base conversion? The issue is not 
> speed, I am afraid of Rev loosing information or refusing to answer 
> correctly. Can we trust rev for number crunching?

8-byte (double) floating point for arithmetic; 32-bit for base 
conversion or bit-logical.

I have tinkered with some homemade arithmetic experiments for intervals 
and for fixed point decimal (* and +).  You can make your own 
arithmetic if you want.

Dar

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