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Eric Sosman
The87Boy wrote On 09/25/07 03:25,:
What do you mean by "longest?" Greatest value,
greatest precision, greatest amount of storage used,
something else?
And what do you mean by "number?" Natural numbers,
integers, floating-point numbers, complex numbers,
quaternions, ...?
And what do you mean by "in C?" Built into the
language and library, or implementable with them?
Rather than trying to answer these rhetorical
questions, try turning the problem around: What do
you want to *do* with this "longest number?" Choose
a hammer or choose a saw according to the job you want
to do, not according to which is "longer."
What is the longest number, you can have in C?
And which data-type do I have to use then?
What do you mean by "longest?" Greatest value,
greatest precision, greatest amount of storage used,
something else?
And what do you mean by "number?" Natural numbers,
integers, floating-point numbers, complex numbers,
quaternions, ...?
And what do you mean by "in C?" Built into the
language and library, or implementable with them?
Rather than trying to answer these rhetorical
questions, try turning the problem around: What do
you want to *do* with this "longest number?" Choose
a hammer or choose a saw according to the job you want
to do, not according to which is "longer."