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Re^4: Reversed long division
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 29, 2005 at 17:47 UTC
    You won't lose even a single digit if you use BigFloat.
Re^4: Reversed long division
by samtregar (Abbot) on Jun 29, 2005 at 19:15 UTC
    Curiosity is getting the better of me. I've gotta know - what are you doing with Perl that works on numbers that big?

    But while I'm here, I second the suggestion that you at least try Math::Big* and Math::Pari. Even if they don't work I'm sure you can learn a lot from their code.

    -sam