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 computer-readable medium for representing a number in binary form based on processor word size comprising:
more than one segment, wherein the segment size is determined based on processor word size, representing more than one digit of a number in binary form.
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.
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