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/* bignum.h-arbitrary precision integers
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/***********************************************************************\
* *
* Arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic. *
* For speed, we work in groups of bits, even though this *
* complicates algorithms. *
* Each group of bits is called a 'littlenum'. *
* A bunch of littlenums representing a (possibly large) *
* integer is called a 'bignum'. *
* Bignums are >= 0. *
* *
\***********************************************************************/
#define LITTLENUM_NUMBER_OF_BITS (16)
#define LITTLENUM_RADIX (1 << LITTLENUM_NUMBER_OF_BITS)
#define LITTLENUM_MASK (0xFFFF)
#define LITTLENUM_SHIFT (1)
#define CHARS_PER_LITTLENUM (1 << LITTLENUM_SHIFT)
#ifndef BITS_PER_CHAR
#define BITS_PER_CHAR (8)
#endif
typedef unsigned short LITTLENUM_TYPE;