3 Mar
2014
3 Mar
'14
2:54 p.m.
Mark H. Harris wrote:
One big issue that is going to confront everyone sooner than later is cryptography. Fast bignum support, fast factoring, and fast transcendentals are going to become more important
I don't see any reason that these have to be done in decimal, though. All the bignum arithmetic used in cryptography is integer, which is exact in any base. Also, the user never sees the resulting numbers as numbers. So the primary requirement is speed, which argues for binary rather than decimal, at least on current hardware. -- Greg