Calculate Big Number

[Tomasz Rola]

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Nac Temha wrote:

> Hello,
> How to *quickly* calculate large numbers. For example
> >>> (10**25) * (2**50)
> 11258999068426240000000000000000000000000L
> 

Um, Karatsuba multiplication?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karatsuba_algorithm

Or see what GMP folks are doing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multi-Precision_Library

Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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