C++ ugh...

[flava]

So C++... I'm rewriting a Python program of mine into C++ and I'm trying to use % on huge numbers. Python has no problem storing a 73 digit int, but if I try to store something with more than 9 digits, C++ starts freaking out. So I'm looking for a way to store as many digits as I want in an int with C++. I'm trying to avoid overloading the % operator to work with doubles because that seems like it would make some crazy overhead. Can someone help?

[mischief]

C++ has no native way of handling 'big numbers'. you're going to need to either write a way to handle them yourself or use a library for it. a good candidate for that is GMP, the GNU Multiple Precision library.

http://gmplib.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Multi- ... on_Library

[flava]

Thanks, GMP is awesome. Next question, I want to create classes using a loop

Code: Select all

char numberOfClasses = 'c';
for(int x = 'a';x <= numberofClasses; x++) {
    myClass x;
}

This obviously doesn't work because every iteration, it tries to redefine class x. Is there any way to do this?

[mischief]

dynamic memory, look into the 'new' operator.

edit: you can also use a container to hold some objects, but that's dynamic in it's own way anyways.