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Re: initializing long mpi-variables
From: |
Kevin Ryde |
Subject: |
Re: initializing long mpi-variables |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 06:30:31 +1000 |
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Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) |
address@hidden writes:
>
> Is it possible to do initialize and use mpz_setbit with a mpz-variables ?
If you mean can you use an mpz_t for the bit-location to set, then no.
It doesn't really make sense to do so, since an "unsigned long" is at
least 2^32 and very few computers can even store a number that big,
let alone do anything with it.
> How big can the number get depending on the memory ?
Generally you're limited only by available memory.