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There was a contest to produce programs generating large numbers in a version of C with integral types that hold arbitrarily-large integers: http://djm.cc/bignu
by panic 12y ago
There was a contest to produce programs generating large numbers in a version of C with integral types that hold arbitrarily-large integers: http://djm.cc/bignum-rules-posted.txt http://djm.cc/bignum-rules-posted.txt
You can see the results here: http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt http://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt -- there's some interesting stuff in there!
- cousin_it 12y agoYeah, that was a great contest as well. Though the numbers involved are necessarily much smaller than even the BB numbers, because they must be computable. Also see this old HN discussion where Eliezer proposed a good way to beat the winner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542770