Arbitrary precision arithmetic with Ruby

Question

How the heck does Ruby do this? Does Jörg or anyone else know what\'s happening behind the scenes?

Unfortunately I don\'t know C very well so bignum.c is of little

Answer 1

Beaconaut APICalc 2 just released on Jan.18, 2011, which is an arbitrary-precision integer calculator for bignum arithmetic, cryptography analysis and number theory research......

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