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11 years ago

Synthesizing an exponential equation (base and mantissa are large numbers)

Hello, I am trying to synthesize an exponential equation (This is used in my look up table). The equation involves real number and therefore I have to find another way to represent it. The act...
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11 years ago

If you don't need digit accuracy, you could use a quadruple-precision floating point number. Those are good up to 10^4962. But the maximum integer that can be stored without loosing accuracy is 2^113.