Arbitrary Length Arithmetic

[Glenn9999]

As another project to be able to do something and not be totally cold with COBOL programming, I decided to attempt writing some arbitrary length arithmetic routines. Anyway, I'm finding COBOL to be very ideal for the task, but I'll admit I'm starting to get a bit stumped on the best way to handle division. So I thought I'd ask if anyone had any thoughts. As well if anyone has any thoughts in general, it might be interesting to talk about them here.

Thanks.

 

[3gm]

Glenn -

You may find some helpful thoughts here:

http://www2.toki.or.id/book/AlgDesignManual/BOOK/BOOK4/NODE144.HTM

Regards.

Glenn

 

[k5tm]

Knuth, Art of Computer Programming, describes the classic long division algorithm which you might find useful.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com