DN556773728

Subject: Re: Long Numbers - DN [1]

Roger E Critchlow Jr <rec@elf.org> - 04 Dec 1999 - comp.lang.tcl

 Eric Evans <ciresnave@yahoo.com> writes:

 > Folks,  I've got a question for anyone and everyone
 > out there who uses TCL for mathematics:
 >
 > Does anyone know of a decent way to deal with a 14
 > digit number in TCL?  When I try to subtract one of
 > them from another tclsh errors out stating:
 >
 > integer value too large to represent

 Well, if 14 digits is all you need, you can simply append .0 to your
 integer values - double precision exactly represents integer values up
 to 56 bits.

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