converting LARGE decimal number to binary stream

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Mariusz Sakowski

I'm writing class which will be able to store large numbers (my
ambition is to make it able to operand on thousands of bits) and
perform various operations on it (similiar to those available with int
type). I want to store the number as binary stream, and I don't know
how to convert large decimal string (char*) to binary stream.
Converting using MOD would last for hours with really big numbers, and
in fact I don't know any other ways to convert decimal to binary.

Maybe someone could advice me how to do it? (i thought of converting
digit by digit and adding it to final stream using fast operator+
function, already implemented to work on binary streams, but again how
could I convert number like k*(10^n), where n could be thousands, to
binary?)

I'll appreciate any help, and am sorry for my poor english.
 
O

osmium

Mariusz Sakowski said:
I'm writing class which will be able to store large numbers (my
ambition is to make it able to operand on thousands of bits) and
perform various operations on it (similiar to those available with int
type). I want to store the number as binary stream, and I don't know
how to convert large decimal string (char*) to binary stream.
Converting using MOD would last for hours with really big numbers, and
in fact I don't know any other ways to convert decimal to binary.

Maybe someone could advice me how to do it? (i thought of converting
digit by digit and adding it to final stream using fast operator+
function, already implemented to work on binary streams, but again how
could I convert number like k*(10^n), where n could be thousands, to
binary?)

How about using BCD arithmetic? In a four-bit nibble store values 0-9.
Handle the sign as a separate issue. This will be slower and use more RAM,
but the simplicity gained makes it seem a reasonable tradeoff to me.
 
E

Edernity

cze,
how will you justify using such number without float?
Isn't that what float is for, very huge number with lots of zero.
Unless you need a super precision which still useable by bigger float.
If binary manipulation you are looking for u do need a converter of
number to bit representation straight into memory/reserve data
structure. BCD is ok but rather slow for this.
Edernity
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