arbitrary precision support opinions

[John W. Eaton]

On 21-Dec-2007, Martin McDermott wrote:

| Hello
| I wondering what people think about arbitrary precision support(mostly for
| large integers).
| 
| I'm pretty new to Octave, but it does sound pretty handy and like it would
| put it a step above Matlab. Ive also been looking for a interesting project
| for awhile now, so I'm not expecting/demanding this feature out of anyone.
| 
| So, do you guys think it would be useful? Would it be used by anyone else?
| Any potential problems or general objections?
| 
| At first it could just be a simple ifndef to choose, and maybe later it
| could be a option during runtime (I'm not sure how yet).
| 
| This would be a pretty big project for me so Id just like some input about
| it first.

I think a better place to discuss this would be the maintainers list.

jwe