Patent Application Number: 2005218001
Filing Date: September 28, 2005Priority Date: October 28, 2004
Inventors: Cyrille de Brebisson
Applicants: Hewlett-Packard Development
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A method of converting a number having one or more digits to a binary representation, comprising the steps of:
determining a maximum number of digits storable in one word of a processor having a predetermined word size; and
converting the determined maximum storable number of digits of the number to a binary representation in a first word.
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
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