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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner content levelBeginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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bigint

Provides big-integer support for Perl. Prior to 5.8, and for 32-bit architectures, Perl supported whatever numbers your platform supported. This wasn’t always the best solution when dealing with large numbers. Thus, the integer-related math modules were born, including Math::BigInt and bigint. Math::BigInt and bigint override all of the core Perl math functions and still support large integers. As of Perl 5.8, bigint.pm is shipped with the Perl source kit.

For example:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use bigint;

my $num1 = 4;
my $num2 = 1024;
 print $num1 ** $num2, "\n";  # Prints a very large number
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