Subj : Re: Homemade float adder?
To   : comp.programming
From : Ben Pfaff
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 06:14 pm

"dave" <nospam@nospam.net> writes:

> This is my problem, I have 2 strings that represent floats.
> I want to add them together.
> Should I look at using Cint to convert each character in the string and add?
> Or is there I better way?
> I can't convert them to floats because the precision must be kept to 300
> digits after the decimal.
> Any clues would be most helpful?

I would use an arbitrary-precision math library, such as GNU gmp.
There is little or no benefit to writing your own routines,
except for educational purposes.
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