June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
Allows use of arbitrary length integers, in which the following apply to all methods, except as noted:
The object $
i remains unchanged.
Big integer strings (bints) have the
form /^\s*[+-]?[\d\s]+$/.
All methods except bcmp
return a big integer string or strings.
Embedded whitespace is ignored.
Output values are always in the canonical form: /^[+-]\d+$/.
The return value NaN
results when an input argument is not a number, or when a divide
by zero is attempted.