[Info-vax] Kednos PL/I

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/13/2023 8:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Big integers in software is pretty standard today. You can get
> 128 or 245 or 512 or 1024 bit integers or whatever if you want to.
> In software. And on todays hardware it will be pretty fast anyway.

As an illustration of how big integers are used today, then
Java 19 added a new method to the BigInteger class - a
parallelMultiply to supplement multiply. That only makes
sense with a lots of bits. The example used in the
LinkedIn post where I saw it ended up with a 347084 bit
integer.

Arne