Pari looks interesting. I'm reading the docs, and it doesn't look like it will handle the size of the numbers I'm dealing with (2^4000000000 and larger). I've used some approximation techniques to get my answer, however, I've tried 3 of them, and they all give me numbers that are way different. I need an exact answer. Eventually, I need a way to do this calculation fast too. Does anyone here have a really good understanding of math and experience with FPGA's? On Mar 13, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:43:03PM -0600, Jay Austad wrote: >> I need to do some calculations on very large numbers, and bc won't >> handle it. Does anyone know if a good tool which doesn't really have >> a limit on the size of numbers that it can deal with? Something >> preferably free, I only really need to do one calculation to find out >> the probability of something, but it's fairly complex and has huge >> numbers in it. > > Pari: > > http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/ > > http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dw/maths/PARI.pdf > > florin > > -- > Don't question authority: they don't know either! > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list