Primes and primality checking

[Mike Kerner]

Long Math is a longstanding ACL contest theme, and I think we've talked
about it here, before, too, because every language runs into precision
issues - sooner or later you're going to run out of digits in the register.

So in LC
Put the value into a container
Write the math algorithms that does it the way you know how to do it when
you are doing it manually.  It's very straightforward.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:27 PM, dunbarx via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Devin.
>
> i don't get an overflow error til 309 digits. Where did the guy set a
> limit?
>
> Making some sort of composite gadget, like we played around with a while
> ago
> on the forum to allow long multiplications, additions, etc. without limit
> would be a general solution without, er, limit.
>
> Maybe Hermann can step in?
>
> But post your offering. As you say, it will firm LC within stack overflow.
>
> Craig
>
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