On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 07:37:49PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > So the product I fancifully mentioned would weigh in somewhere around > 10^300, and thus be *well* within the capability of even the proposed > restricted numeric format. I think numbers much bigger than that are only useful for theoretical mathemeticians. I also think that most of the people dealing with such numbers probably refer to the formula used to create them since manipulating that is likely to be faster than reading all the digits of such a large numbers. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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