displaying big integers

by Anonymous Monk

on Aug 30, 2002 at 16:17 UTC ( [id://194156]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml )

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Monks,

Newbie question here how can I (or can I?) display the decimal expansion of say:

print 2**103;

(or any quite large integer) instead of the scientific expression??

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Re: displaying big integers by projekt21 (Friar) on Aug 30, 2002 at 16:21 UTC
`perl -MMath::BigInt=:constant -e 'print 2**103'` [download] Please see Math::BigInt for more. alex pleiner <alex@zeitform.de> zeitform Internet Dienste	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: displaying big integers by Anonymous Monk on Aug 30, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
Thanks alot that is great!	[reply]

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