Big numbers
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| Hi guys! I was playing here a game called "Clicker Heroes" (sorry won't post the link, google it if you want, at your own risk, it's those games that gets very addictive, and not in a good way) The game is something like "Cookie clicker", and the game has really, really big numbers being used - going up to "vigintillion" O_o So I was thinking about doing something similar on Monkey, just for kicks - but how would I represent big numbers like that? The first thing that comes to mind is to actually split numbers into 2 ints, one for the number, other for magnitude - but I'm worried things can get very complicated really soon... And how would I go about comparisons? Would be possible in Monkey to have a BigNumber Class and then do something like "if big_number_A > big_number_B"? Does anyone have an advice on this? |
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| The best way would be to create a sintrg-based number class that can use numbers of any size number of digits. Calculation is usually slwer, but it could be done like this. |
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| I have something working now - still have to implement subtraction, multiplication and comparison, but this link helped me out a lot: http://www.drdobbs.com/a-class-for-representing-large-integers/184403247 Using arrays to store individual numbers is genius! :) |
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