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Originally Posted by Turtle
I have paper & pencils, a $20 Casio 99 Function portable, the Windows Calculator on this machine, & an antique Borland Turbo Basic.
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You also, I have observed, have a scanner, which greatly enhances the expressive power of your paper & pencils!
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… here is what I wish for that doesn't exist. Huge integers within my reach but beyond my grasp
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For your occasional huge integer needs, you might find Ruby useful. It’s freeware, small (about 5MB of essentials, 35MB of frills), and can be used right from the DOS/Windows/Unix command line, but is pretty slow, and without using programming statements, has only the basic math functions. This
“getting started” link tells all one need to know to install and use it for simple calculations.
Maybe somebody knows of a smaller, faster arbitrary precision calculator?
