Re^3: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yeah)


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Re^3: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yeah)

by Laurent_R (Canon)

on Mar 20, 2015 at 21:54 UTC ( [id://1120807]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Thank you, tye ++, I did not know about this module until today, it looks very interesting, I'll look at it and at its code.

I was only trying to give a very basic proof of concept to try to help the OP. Surely, your module offers much more than my poor basic attempts. Congrats for it.

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Re^4: Efficiently working with huge exponents (yes)
by tye (Sage) on Mar 20, 2015 at 22:48 UTC

No, I'm glad you laid out the fairly simple math that lets one do these types of calculations quickly and fairly easily.

I just saw the opportunity to connect the two suggestions and thus 1) give people a quick intro to what Math::BigApprox is doing under the covers and 2) let the OP know that they don't have to do this by hand if this level of accuracy is acceptable.

Thanks for showing the math that I didn't have/take the time to. :)

- tye

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