[Lars H], 8 Nov 2004:
This page was created as an adjunct to [Proper integers for Tcl 8.5 or 9.0] 
to house some code that aimed to implement the ideas there. A more 
recent and readable (but still incomplete) version of that can be found in
[http://abel.math.umu.se/~lars/misc/bigint.pdf].

Things completed:
   * Implementation of a '''bigint''' [Tcl_Obj] type.
   * Procedures for + and - using SLM-hexadecimal representation.

Things half-done:
   * Implementation of a bigint subtype ''SLM-hexadecimal'' with internal representation.
   * Building using [CriTcl]

Things hardly even started:
   * Other operations

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'''Talk'''

I wonder - I recently ran into a reference to http://freshmeat.net/projects/hfloat/
which proports to provide support exteme precision floating point as well.
I don't recall hearing anyone ask for huge floating point though; only
integers. - [RS]: Arbitrary-size integers are still well-bounded; huge floating-point numbers will need a bound in precision, otherwise any irrational number like atan(-1) (=Pi) will never stop to produce digits...
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