Am 22.05.2011 09:37, schrieb Stephen:

>> It computes FRACTals using the
>> computer's INTeger instructions - rather than floating point -
>> implementing numeric formats with much higher precision than natively
>> supported by the computer's architecture.
>>
>
> That was the question I meant to ask, how? But never mind if I'm really
> interested I suppose I can look it up.

Essentially they use the same methods you'd use when doing computations 
with pen & paper, except they use 16- or 32-bit (or nowadays possibly 
64-bit) integers as "digits", i.e. base-65536 or base-42949667296 maths 
instead of base-10.

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