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Bytes question in C 1
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Strictly speaking you can store a 100 digit number as a string. Whether this is any use is another matter. If you have a suitable compiler then the max of long long is 2^64 otherwise you are down to writing your own store and handling.
If you're really doing maths to 100 decimal place prcision then you must be doing something unusual.
Columb Healy
If you're really doing maths to 100 decimal place prcision then you must be doing something unusual.
Columb Healy
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lionelhill
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Columb: banking in a country with a bad inflation problem??!!
Lisalis99: if you can avoid it, don't even think about doing maths on a number stored as a string. It's easy to code but it'd run like thick treacle on a cold day.
Lisalis99: if you can avoid it, don't even think about doing maths on a number stored as a string. It's easy to code but it'd run like thick treacle on a cold day.
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