ICI Modules: bignum

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Modules by name : by type

Overview

The bignum module provides access to the INRIA/DEC Bignum package for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic. The module introduces a new type, bignum, to represent such numbers and provides the following functions to manipulate them,

• bignum.abs - absolute value

• bignum.add - add two bignums

• bignum.bignum - create a new bignum

• bignum.compare - compare two bignums

• bignum.create - create a bignum with an initial number of digits

• bignum.div - divide one bignum by another

• bignum.mod - take the modulus of two bignums

• bignum.mult - multiply two bignums

• bignum.negate - return the negative of a bignum

• bignum.sub - return the difference of two bignums

• bignum.tostring - return the textual representation of a bignum