Re: LOGO-L> fastpower

["Andrzej B." <abkomet@lodz.pdi.net>]

At 22:37 23-09-98 -0700, you wrote:
>Just try
>to power :x :y
>output exp(ln :x)* :y
>end
>neuwirth heeft geschreven in bericht ...
[snap]

That's OK, but in this case we wouldn't know for example, that 1967 are
156-159th digits of 2^999.
With Neuwirth minimal multiplication method and some procedures to multiply
and add on lists of digits rather then on floating point numbers, I could
get all 301 digits of 2^999 in just few minutes with my Logo on a tiny
AMD-K5 processor.
By the way - is it any clever way to calculate a factoral. My Logo took
almost 2 minutes to find
4274883284060025564298013753389399649690343788366813724672000000000000 as 53!

Best regards

Andrzej B.

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