-=> Quoting Roy McNeill to Peter Leschev <=-

Hi!
 
 RM> That's the clue - 500 digits. You're not going to get real numbers
 RM> that big in your program without a specialist add-on library.
 RM> Therefore, they want you to think laterally. If you can't get a 500
 RM> digit answer from your program, or even from your calculator, how
 RM> else is there to do it? By hand, of course. You could whip out a
 RM> 500 digit reciprocal of 326 using paper and long division in about
 RM> an hour, using a calculator for the simple multiply and subtract
 RM> operations on 4 digit (max) numbers. So let's do the same thing in
 RM> a program:

I would like to thankyou for helping me out. I had a feeling that there was
another way in solving the problem but I only thought of my solution during
the comp but I was too lazy mentally to explore the possiblities of solving
it in a mathy sort of way....
        I again thankyou for your time.

        Peter


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