big

package standard library
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Overview

Package big implements multi-precision arithmetic (big numbers). The following numeric types are supported:

  • Int signed integers
  • Rat rational numbers

Methods are typically of the form: 

func (z *Int) Op(x, y *Int) *Int	(similar for *Rat)

and implement operations z = x Op y with the result as receiver; if it is one of the operands it may be overwritten (and its memory reused). To enable chaining of operations, the result is also returned. Methods returning a result other than *Int or *Rat take one of the operands as the receiver.

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