[seqfan] Re: Implementing first 500 sequences in Java

[Richard Mathar]

> From: "N. J. A. Sloane"
> To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Implementing first 500 sequences in Java
> 
> Does Java do exact arithmetic on large numbers?
> Can the results of these programs be trusted?

Java has "ideal" support to arbitrarily large numbers with
the BigInteger class. Unlike C/C++ or F90 etc, this is a very
natural reference library for these tasks. I've used this a lot
in the FI interpreter http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~mathar/progs/FI.html which uses
mY API of http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~mathar/progs/jdocs .
There seems to be no standard NumberTheory library on top of that,
so one has basically start from scratch to "do" prime numbers,
rationals etc.

The functionality that is available in the base library is
documented in http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/ (search
for BigInteger in the lower left panel). Basically this is +, -, *,
the integer-with-remainder,  power to an integer and some bit manipulations.

RJM