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Raymond Toy  
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 More options Aug 8 2004, 2:38 pm
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From: Raymond Toy <r...@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 18:38:52 GMT
Local: Sun, Aug 8 2004 2:38 pm
Subject: Re: size of a bignum
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Jim Newton wrote:
> well it seems like CMUCL cannot handle log of a very large bignum.
> it does not upset me very much since i have a nice workaround
> thanks to jsn...@iki.fi.  besides all i really needed to know

* (log (ash 1 10000000))
6931472.0

Get a newer version of cmucl.  But of course, the result will only have
single-float accuracy, so it might not be good enough for what you want,
so jsn...@iki.fi has a good general solution.

Ray


 
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