New Data Types??

I guess this has been asked before, but I'll ask it anyway.

The largest integer types and real types for BP7 are Longint and Comp
respectively, as I recall. They hold big numbers, but can anyone write
a unit
that will supply data types which hold even BIGGER numbers? say, 128
bit or
256 bit numbers? Are there such units or resources available? Thanks
in advance.

On 2008-05-23, Patrick D. Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> wrote:
> The largest integer types and real types for BP7 are Longint and Comp
> respectively, as I recall.

comp is an integer managed by the FPU and a strange beast. Extended is the
largest "real" floating point type.

> They hold big numbers, but can anyone write a unit that will supply data
> types which hold even BIGGER numbers? say, 128 bit or 256 bit numbers? Are
> there such units or resources available? Thanks in advance.

Yes that is possible, and IIRC there are such units in SWAG

On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:38:20 -0700 (PDT), "Patrick D. Rockwell"
<prockwell@thegrid.net> wrote:

>I guess this has been asked before, but I'll ask it anyway.
>
>The largest integer types and real types for BP7 are Longint and Comp
>respectively, as I recall. They hold big numbers, but can anyone write
>a unit
>that will supply data types which hold even BIGGER numbers? say, 128
>bit or
>256 bit numbers? Are there such units or resources available? Thanks
>in advance.

You can use my open source Pascal code for multi precision integer,
rational, and floating point arithmetic:
<http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/misc_en.html#mparith>

Direct download link:
<http://home.netsurf.de/wolfgang.ehrhardt/mpa_2008-02-03.zip>

Hope that helps
Wolfgang

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In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <5c0ee7da-110c-48c6-948f-de438f81615
8@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, Thu, 22 May 2008 20:38:20, Patrick D.
Rockwell <prockwell@thegrid.net> posted:
>I guess this has been asked before, but I'll ask it anyway.
>
>The largest integer types and real types for BP7 are Longint and Comp
>respectively, as I recall. They hold big numbers, but can anyone write
>a unit
>that will supply data types which hold even BIGGER numbers? say, 128
>bit or
>256 bit numbers? Are there such units or resources available? Thanks
>in advance.

Program/unit longcalc.pas will handle integers up to 16^65500 plus in
BP7; for more, use Delphi.

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