Then I would strongly encourage you to not use the module at all. IIRC, there was an initial attempt to convert the perl4 bigint facilities to a perl5 module that then languished in an incomplete and buggy state for years. Only lately has the module been maintained and improved (and made much faster). To quote the doc you linked to:
BUGS

The current version of this module is a preliminary version of the rea
+l thing that is currently (as of perl5.002) under development.

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Seeing that 5.002 in 5.6 should give you a clue that nobody was bothering much about it for a long time.

OTOH, if the bugs aren't biting you, they aren't biting you.

In reply to Re^5: Big Int to hex with 5.6 by ysth
in thread Big Int to hex with 5.6 by ZlR

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