Smalltalk - Re: Large Integer Sqrt broken?

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Re: Large Integer Sqrt broken?

Brian Gridley

2004-04-20, 6:36 pm

BTW, this also happens in VA.

bgridle1@progressive.com (Brian Gridley) wrote in message news:<e3ab068e.0404200544.36e8b8fa@posting.google.com>...
> I was trying to use VW7 for the first time. The sqrt and raisedTo:
> methods now break on large integers, as they try to convert to floats.
> A couple years ago I used VW 2.x-3.x to do raisedTo: and did not have
> this problem. Using the StMMath classes does not solve this either. Is
> the old functionality gone for good, or is it available some other
> way? I need something that works at a good speed for really big
> numbers.

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