[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Very big numbers

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From: ted <ted@...>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:47:07 -0500
From the nimble fingers of Bowerbird@... (Bowerbird@...) (9/11/2000
12:25 PM) came...

> ted said:
>> It's not pretty, but it's good to as many digits as you like:
> 
> i've often wondered why not do things this way?
> 
> -bowerbird

A few tolerably good reasons spring to mind; chief among them is that it's
utterly daft...

If 'things' include attempting to lead a strapping teenager into the realm
of ordered thought (down which paths they tread warily, and which paths I
find ever darker these days), then it's as good a way as any.
-- 
Ted Spencer; ted@...
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