BigInt be gone

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

what's the cleanest way to shrink two Math::BigInt objects in order to do a division which will give a float result? The two BigInt numbers are known to be small enough to survive translation into standard ints.

pressed for time, I just made them into bigfloats before dividing... but it seems that it would be more efficient to make them into standard ints.

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Re: BigInt be gone by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2001 at 19:11 UTC
never mind... just needed some coffee. Feel free to moderate into oblivion as I've now answered my own question... `print "this works: ", "$five"/"$four", "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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