Re: Calcuating with numbers above of 1000000000

[Paul Jarc]

Fabian Foerster <fabian_foerster@web.de> wrote:
>       I wanted to write a script that makes it possible to create extremly 
> long
>       numbers. That wasn't possible to me because, I think, the bash cannot
>       handle numbers above of 1000000000.

bash does not use bignums, it uses one of the C integer types, so
there will be a limited range.  If you upgrade to 2.05b, the range
will probably be larger.  But if you need arbitrarily large integers,
use something other than bash.


paul