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Base conversion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (grimm@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 17 00:54:34 1996

From: grimm@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 00:48:34 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com

	I am trying to write some code to perform base conversions on
very large numbers (possibly as large as 256^(2^(ULONG_MAX))).
Specifically, I store the numbers in base 256, but I would like to be
able to print them in base 10.  Any really brillant ideas?

-James

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