Patent Application Number: 2005218001
Filing Date: September 28, 2005Priority Date: October 28, 2004
Inventors: Cyrille de Brebisson
Applicants: Hewlett-Packard Development
View Prior Art for Claim 2
The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined size segment is one or more digits and the number of digits equal to the maximum number of digits storable in one word of the processor word size wherein each digit is able to be all of the range of number system numbers.
Title IBM UK Ltd., UK
Description
identical algorithm
Name/Title GNU GMP 2.0.2
System Type Code Library, Module, Plug-in, Component, or Function
Description
GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library. "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. ... The first GMP release was made in 1991."
Name/Title long.pl (in DEC-10 Prolog library)
System Type Code Library, Module, Plug-in, Component, or Function
Description
The DEC-10 Prolog library provided base 10**N bignums in the file LONG.PL in 1981.
Title The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, Seminumerical Algorithms
ISBN 0-201-03822-6
Description
Knuth's famous series includes a chapter on multiprecision arithmetic including the use of base 10**n big digits
United States