> 16 significant digits?

[Bipolar_Games]

Is there any way to do calculations with more than 16 significant digits? I'm making a small app to test the Collatz Conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture) and need moar digits!!!

[King_Cool]

Couldent you manually create a digital number using 2 Counter Object ( 1 for whole numbers and 1 for decimal numbers )?

EDIT:
Hmmm no, Couners are limited to a maximum of 10 numbers.
I think your best solution would be to use Strings and treat them like Counters.

[Bipolar_Games]

Yup, I do that now, but I need to be able to do maths between them. The "Double Precision Calculator" extension can calculate out to 16 digits, using Strings, but I need something more like 32 digits (or more if possible)!

[LB]

Try the Advanced Int64 Object - it should do the trick
Note: the 64 means 64 bits, not 64 digits. MMF2 has 32 bit integers.

[Jacob]

Eliyahu (or Phi?) wrote an extension that was able to multiply around 40 digit numbers, which should work nicely. Also, if you're trying to do some actual mathematical research, I read that the Collatz Conjecture had been proven valid for numbers in several thousands of digits, but the extension should be fine if you're just playing around with numbers.

[Bipolar_Games]

Cool! And no, just messing with numbers and data sets

Can't find the extension you're talking about though, just the Advanced Int64 one. Any idea where I can find a link? Also, any chance any of these extensions (especially the 40 digit number one) will be/can be ported to the Android Runtime?

[LB]

I have another extension that may be overkill for you, but it does numbers with over 300 digits. Look for Int16384 on my extensions page.

[Jacob]

It was never public, but LB's extension should work fine