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Re: BigInt problem
Feb 13, 2011
bearophile
Feb 13, 2011
tsukikage
Feb 13, 2011
bearophile
February 13, 2011
tsukikage:

> Is it my program bug or bigint broken?

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5568

Bye,
bearophile
February 13, 2011
For curiosity, would you explain/guess a possible reason for that?
Thanks!

bearophile wrote:
> tsukikage:
> 
>> Is it my program bug or bigint broken?
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5568
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile
February 13, 2011
tsukikage:

> For curiosity, would you explain/guess a possible reason for that?

I leave the answer to Don, I don't know the internals of D BigInts.

Multi-precision integers are basic bricks used to build many other programs. How can you be sure they don't contain bugs that break your heavy numeric code? This is a big problem.

Bye,
bearophile