[prog] possibly wrong place to ask this

[Conor Daly]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:45:05PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Phoebe _ thought:
> I'm trying to code a multiple precision math lib in order to figure
> out how it's done (I'm a maths student, so sue me :P ). I was
> wondering if anyone here knows where I could find some resources on
> how to go about designing stuff like this? I'm happy getting my hands
> dirty with ASM and stuff but will probably be working it out mostly in
> C. I'm cool for algorithms. I'm just having difficulty figuring out
> how to handle the big numbers.

Do you mean like the IEEE 754 standard as detailed at:
http://www.ibilce.unesp.br/courseware/datas/data1.htm

Conor
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