That's a bummer. However, it needn't be a total disaster. You can get both quotient and remainder, by making two calls on the same data. For example, band() seems to work just fine as follows, to get at the remainder of a division by 256: 
use Math::BigInt;
$a = new Math::BigInt(0xFE78A3);
printf '%02X', $a->band(0xFF);

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Result: 
A3

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 This is with Math::BigInt version 1.64.

Update: Yeah, the real solution would be for you to go back to school. ;-)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Converting an array of bytes into a BigInt - speed considerations by bart
in thread Converting an array of bytes into a BigInt - speed considerations by dempa

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