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   Krishna Myneni to Anton Ertl   
   Re: Best Euler #13 solution?   
   04 May 24 13:02:45   
   
   From: krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org   
      
   On 5/4/24 12:42, Anton Ertl wrote:   
   > Krishna Myneni  writes:   
   >> Nice. However, it's probably not a practical way to do arithmetic of big   
   >> numbers, compared to adding binary representations of the number in   
   >> larger chunks than single decimal digits.   
   >   
   > In the Euler 13 case, each input number is used only once, and as I   
   > explained in <2024May3.102927@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at>, converting   
   > an input number to a binary representation costs more than adding it   
   > digit-by-digit (i.e., column by column), which my program from that   
   > posting does.   
   >   
      
      
   Thanks, I'll try it.   
      
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