I'm talking about huge

teammatt3 — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 06:20:00 +0000

I'm talking about huge numbers that are outside the bounds of normal numbers in programming languages.

I just looked at GMP functions in PHP and the addition of a number with 207,360 digits and a 1 only took a second. Anyone know how they do it?

I suppose I could look at their source...

well, I am not familiar with

decibel.places — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:32:48 +0000

well, I am not familiar with the flips and flops of the digital circuits, if that is what you mean...

couldn't you typecast the strings as integers?

In JavaScript you would just eval(string1 + string2)

I think in PHP you can add "0" to convert a numerical string into an integer as in

$string1 = "9999999999999999999999999";
$string2 = "1"; 
$int1 = 0+$string1;
$int2 = 0+$string2;
$total = $int1 + $int2;

for $total I get 1.0E+25

there are some more methods to type strings as integers here such as int($string)