> 4 - (10**31)**31 has nearly a thousand digits in it - are you sure that it fitted on 3 lines? :) That's a "thinko" - I actually did 2**31**31, sorry! > Not quite sure what any of this has to do with Hardware Description, though. Anyone who's going to build a huge > block of silicon full of integer multipliers will be using a supercomputer to check their results, not a VHDL > operator. Many VHDL users have wanted >32 bits for their ints, and the proposal is that instead of just saying 64-bits will be enough, to not limit things (much as Python doesn't limit you either). Also crypto uses several-thousand-bit numbers, and simulating them with a bignum is very likely to be more efficient than thousands of individual bits. Cheers, Martin -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.Received on Tue Jul 1 04:00:25 2014
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