math, bigly

[Mark Wieder]

Phooey...

put baseconvert("100000001",16,10)

...and yes, I understand what's going on under the hood, but I'm annoyed 
that the IDE doesn't give me an overflow warning if I try to perform an 
operation on a number that's bigger than 0xFFFFFFFF. Instead, it just 
happily trims it down to an unsigned integer and proceeds to give me a 
wrong result. I came across this yesterday handing two large numbers to 
the bitXor operand which threw no errors and went on with the rest of 
the calculation. I had to backtrack to figure out what was going on, and 
finally ended up writing my own bitwise operators to deal with this.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com