Hilmar,

>What does the second example do - the one with the empty operator?
It makes addition. "+" is everywhere by default, so it may be skipped.

>I would suggest the following enhancements:

>1) Extend the concept to multiplication and division. The algorithm is more >complicated, of course, than addition or subtraction, and the calculations >would be slow if you multiply, say, two 500-digit numbers. Ask me if you need >details on the algorithm. The basic idea, of course, is to apply the >multiplication algorithm you learned in primary school. Intermediate results >have to be stored - and incremented - in arrays or something similar.

It seems you already did it. If so, did you post it somewhere? I would not post my ymore16 if I saw something similar.

>2) Instead of limiting to 16 decimals digits, you might provide an (optional) >parameter for the number of digits in the result. Let's say that the default >remains at 16 - this would seem a reasonable default to me. I mean, if you >scan a text one byte at a time, there is no need to arbitrarily limit the >input and the results to 16 decimals.

Actually I am doubting that calculations with precision more than 16 will be useful. Just current situation with economy/monetary system in some countries forces to extend the precision limit.

Thank you for your replay.

Yuri