Just wanted to know... is there any variable in C++ that can hold larger numbers than unsigned long long int , or is it the largest variable?
Thanks in advance :P
unbeatable0 32 Junior Poster in Training
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Jump to Post— Narue 5,707If you can't fit the value into a long int or a long double (or long long, if your compiler supports), you need some kind of arbitrary length arithmetic type, which isn't native to C++.
Jump to Post— Member #46692Tell us what compiler/ide you are using?
But the following link would be the obvious choice.
Jump to Post— dmanw100 36If you want to switch to Java it supports the Big Int class... but there is nothing bigger that I know of in C++.
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Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
If you can't fit the value into a long int or a long double (or long long, if your compiler supports), you need some kind of arbitrary length arithmetic type, which isn't native to C++.
unbeatable0 32 Junior Poster in Training
I see... so, are there some classes that people made for huge numbers handling?
I like working with big numbers :P
Member #46692
Tell us what compiler/ide you are using?
But the following link would be the obvious choice.
dmanw100 36 Posting Whiz in Training
If you want to switch to Java it supports the Big Int class... but there is nothing bigger that I know of in C++.
unbeatable0 32 Junior Poster in Training
Tell us what compiler/ide you are using?
But the following link would be the obvious choice.
What's IDE?
I'm using Dev-C++ (version if it helps...)
Narue 5,707 Bad Cop Team Colleague
>so, are there some classes that people made for huge numbers handling?
Yes. I would recommend GMP as well.
>I like working with big numbers
It should go without saying that using such a library is extremely likely to be slower than built in types. If you don't need big numbers, don't bother. I say this because I've caught people using BigInt when the value never exceeded int and there was no foreseeable increase in the necessary range.
Sci@phy 97 Posting Whiz in Training
What's IDE?
I'm using Dev-C++ (version if it helps...)
That's IDE. :)
IDE stands for integrated development environment.
Best to describe it as a compiler and a lot of useful stuff that comes with it, almost always including specific text editor.
TheBeast32 54 Posting Whiz in Training
The Dev-Pak for GMP is on this thread. I attached it to one of my posts: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread145324.html
ArkM 1,090 Postaholic
Just imagine that all your numbers are scaled. For example, let 1 is equal to 1 billion, 2 == 2 billions and so on (append nine zeroes when printing)...
What's a pleasure to summarize very BIG numbers with short int arithmetics: no need in GMP and other stuff...
;)
dmanw100 36 Posting Whiz in Training
Unless you absolutely need to know those 9 digits that are missing... but that rarely ever happens :)
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