You mean
(14229499582749302182940392839403938400058748399920384875773202816267485 
94937267261/47) asDouble

3.027553102712617e79

Consider setting up a squeak http server (yes all the code exists for  
that). Which allows you to enter numbers on a form, then have squeak
do the math, and return the results. Also you could do this with  
sockets, write data to squeak VM listening socket, read results from  
socket.
start a unix squeak headless server somewhere to be the calculation  
engine. It will multi-task multiple request on lightweight threads.

Lastly I'm not sure if anyone pointed out
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dhbnumerics/

Smalltalk numerical analysis codes based on Didier Besset's  
"Object-Oriented Implementation of Numerical Methods: An Introduction  
with Java & Smalltalk", 2000, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Which came  
out of work done at Camp Smalltalk.


On Feb 20, 2004, at 10:42 AM, Colin Putney wrote:

>> Ducasse mentions 1000 and 2000 length number strings could we  
>> actually perform operations on these and get accurate results to four  
>> decimal places with out rounding off? Could you give an example of  
>> how this might be done in code (roughly)? Is it quite the acrobatic  
>> feat or just normal Squeak math operations inline? Call me dense.....  
>> (I'm sometimes a bit thick / slow - when first trying to viusalize  
>> something.....) but I can't yet see how this would be done ....
>>
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