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Rajesh R Subramanian18-Oct-08 2:39

18-Oct-08 2:39

trioum wrote:
is there any data type is which I can store the 1 billion digit number

1 billion digits? OMG | :OMG:

Surely, you meant the number 1 billion and not 1 billion digits?

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trioum18-Oct-08 2:43

trioum

18-Oct-08 2:43

no I mean 1 billion digits .

Trioum

Rajesh R Subramanian18-Oct-08 2:46

18-Oct-08 2:46

GMP BigNum library[^] is your best bet perhaps.

As an example, Here is the sample calculation and result:

Cauculation: 1 + gcd(87324,78263148,7896) * (10^1989879887 mod 421!)

The Output: A very laaarge number[^]

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Cedric Moonen18-Oct-08 2:54

Cedric Moonen

18-Oct-08 2:54

Still very far from 1 billion digits Poke tongue | ;-P

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Rajesh R Subramanian18-Oct-08 3:04

18-Oct-08 3:04

Yes, that's why I said it could be his *best bet*.

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CPallini18-Oct-08 2:56

18-Oct-08 2:56

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
The Output: A very laaarge number[^]

order 6 of magnitude apart Poke tongue | ;-P

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23-Oct-08 5:27

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:
GMP BigNum library[^] is your best bet perhaps.

Rajesh, do you know of any good implementations of BigNum that are not Gnu based, i.e. use MS tools like MASM? I have Googled "multi precision math" and went through all of the hits, and the results (there were 97) were all about BigNum, or proprietary for sale products, or for Java, or were white papers. Nothing there about a PC based MS implementation. I even searched the CP articles and found no hits.

I downloaded the GMP version and started looking at the ASM source, but without the GCC compiler and its tools, the code is not complete. It needs to be expanded by the Gnu M4 macros and assembled by GAS (Gnu Assembler?), and even then I don't know whether or not it produces anything like a .LST file that would actually indicate exactly what instructions are executing at which locations to gain their reported speed by taking advantage of cashing, etc. I really don't want to go this route, I want to stick with MS tools and don't even want the C++ front end, strictly MASM.

I do have an integer implementation of a multi precision math library and was thinking of expanding it to a floating point version and was looking to see how it stacked up with "the best". As far as I could easily determine, the BigNum algorithms matched mine. Mine were home brew - what worked fastest, theirs were based on the experts like Knuth. I went to my library and cracked open Knuth, Vol 2, for the first time to see what the expert had to say. Enlightening. I have also done a thorough read of the AMD specs on my Athlon and have used many of their suggestions.

Dave Augustine.

Rajesh R Subramanian23-Oct-08 21:46

23-Oct-08 21:46

Dave,

I am not able to suggest something readily that might suit you. Further to that, I have not worked too much on this front. I have forwarded this query to a few people that might possibly give a fruitful reply.

I'll write to you if I hear something from them.

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24-Oct-08 5:37

Rajesh,

Thank you for your help. I'll be waiting to hear if any of your contacts has anything.

What really supprised me was that the Code Project didn't have anything at all about this.

Dave.

CPallini18-Oct-08 2:57

18-Oct-08 2:57

Yes: 1GB file. Big Grin | :-D

Rajesh R Subramanian18-Oct-08 3:05

18-Oct-08 3:05

ROTFL.

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Mark Salsbery18-Oct-08 8:34

Mark Salsbery

18-Oct-08 8:34

trioum wrote:
storing the largest number

A number with 1000000000 digits is the largest number? Cool,
that simplifies my life considerably! Smile | :)

trioum wrote:
is there any data type is which I can store the 1 billion digit numbe

You can easily make your own type.

Assuming you only need to work with digits 0-9, you only need
four bits per digit. That means two digits will fit in a byte.

Write a class to wrap a 500000000 byte array and cross your fingers
that you are actually able to allocate that much in one chunk.
A backing store on the harddrive may help here - perhaps a memory
mapped file. In the class, provide whatever methods you need to access
the digits.

Easy.

Good luck,
Mark

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CPallini18-Oct-08 9:43

18-Oct-08 9:43

Mark Salsbery wrote:
Assuming you only need to work with digits 0-9, you only need
four bits per digit. That means two digits will fit in a byte.

Write a class to wrap a 500000000 byte array and cross your fingers
that you are actually able to allocate that much in one chunk.

Thank you sir. Now I need an array of the above class instances. The array should have 1 billion elements... Big Grin | :-D

Mark Salsbery18-Oct-08 9:47

Mark Salsbery

18-Oct-08 9:47

CPallini wrote:
Now I need an array of the above class instances. The array should have 1 billion elements...

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CPallini18-Oct-08 10:00

18-Oct-08 10:00

String Conversion C++ <--> VB

David Crow18-Oct-08 14:17

David Crow

18-Oct-08 14:17

Store? Even if each digit were 1 byte, that'd require 1GB of memory. Perhaps you could explain your requirements a bit so we could possibly offer an alternative solution.

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ganralf18-Oct-08 0:54

18-Oct-08 0:54

Hello together,

I've tried to return a string back from a C++ dll function within VB and it is working fine, but if I try to use the same function in a C++ project it returns garbage !

does anyone know what I have to do different ? as I want to use the function in C++ as well as in VB is there a way to implement the function to fit for both languages ?

my C++ dll function:

BSTR __stdcall ReturnString2Vb(void)
{
char* str = "This is a test string...";

return SysAllocStringByteLen(str, strlen(str));
}

thanks a lot in advance for any help !
ganralf

CPallini18-Oct-08 1:46

18-Oct-08 1:46

Possibly it doesn't return garbage, it returns a BSTR. You may, for instance, use _bstr_t wrapper class to handle it in your C++ application.
Smile | :)

ganralf18-Oct-08 2:22

18-Oct-08 2:22

Hi Pallini,

thanks for your quick answer !!!

do you mean I have to replace BSTR by _bstr_t ? I tried it in the following way but now I get a compile error that tells me that the _bstr_t data type is not defined. Which header do I have to include in my C++ project ?

_bstr_t ReturnString2Vb(void)
{
char* str = "This is a test string...";

return SysAllocStringByteLen(str, strlen(str));
}

would be great if you could report me an example Smile | :)

maybe important: the dll I created is a win32 dll not a MFC or similar

thanks in advance for your help !
ganralf

CPallini18-Oct-08 2:41

18-Oct-08 2:41

ganralf wrote:
do you mean I have to replace BSTR by _bstr_t ?

Nope.

In you client C++ application you may use _bstr_t as wrapper for the BSTR return value. You know, BSTR stands for OLECHAR *, i.e. like a wide char string, you may also handle directly it in you client app.

With VS6 compiler you need to include comdef.h to use _bstr_t class.

ganralf18-Oct-08 2:58

Re: String Conversion C++ <--> VB [modified]

18-Oct-08 2:58

ok, thanks Pallini ! it now seems to compile and link but the result is the same Frown | :(

dll function
BSTR ReturnString2Vb(void)
{
char* str = "This is a test string...";

return SysAllocStringByteLen(str, strlen(str));
}

C++ application code
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
_bstr_t returned_string;

returned_string = ReturnString2Vb();

return 0;
}

as I am new to C++ and if it would be no great effort for you I think it would be helpfull if you could change the above mentioned code so that it will work.

thanks in advance !
ganralf

CPallini18-Oct-08 3:07

18-Oct-08 3:07

What does the following C++ application ouputs

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
BSTR returned_string;

returned_string = ReturnString2Vb();

wprintf( L"%s\n", returned_string);

printf("%s\n", (const char *) returned_string);

return 0;
}

modified on Saturday, October 18, 2008 9:22 AM

ganralf18-Oct-08 3:12