Inclusion of new types to work with arbitrary-precision arithmetic (System.

His work includes a proposal for standard support of dynamic libraries and arbitrary-precision arithmetic in C++.

With arbitrary-precision arithmetic, this loop would continue until the computer's memory could no longer contain .

If the exact values of large factorials are needed, they can be computed using arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Thus, factorial is a suitable candidate for arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Maple, Mathematica, and several other computer algebra software include arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

An animated implementation that uses arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

For example, OCaml has a built-in library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Other formats might be emulated by the runtime library, including arbitrary-precision arithmetic available in some languages and libraries.

Dart: the built-in int datatype implements arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Arbitrary-precision arithmetic can also be used to avoid overflow, which is an inherent limitation of fixed-precision arithmetic.

Where necessary, the exception can be caught and recovered from-for instance, the operation could be restarted in software using arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

Haskell: the built-in Integer datatype implements arbitrary-precision arithmetic and the standard Data.

(This is called arbitrary-precision arithmetic.)

But even the most complex floating-point hardware has a finite number of operations it can support-for example, none of them directly support arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

One can use general arbitrary-precision arithmetic libraries to obtain quadruple (or higher) precision, but specialized quadruple-precision implementations may achieve higher performance.

NET Framework lacks classes to deal with arbitrary-precision floating point numbers (see software for arbitrary-precision arithmetic).

In OCaml, the Num module provides arbitrary-precision arithmetic and can be loaded into a running top-level using:

The latter is more cumbersome to use, so it's only employed when necessary, for example in the analysis of arbitrary-precision arithmetic algorithms, like those used in cryptography.

The precision of a digital computer is limited by the word size; arbitrary-precision arithmetic, while relatively slow, provides any practical degree of precision that might be needed.

In Windows 95 and later, it uses an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library, replacing the standard IEEE floating point library.

In practice, this can only be done by software that either supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic or that can handle 128 bit integers, features that are often not standard.

Over the years, Microsoft got so much heat for floating point rounding artifacts in the Windows Calculator that they rewrote it to use an arbitrary-precision arithmetic library.

In arbitrary-precision arithmetic, it's common to use long multiplication with the base set to 2, where w is the number of bits in a word, for multiplying relatively small numbers.

Alongside conventional integer and floating point arithmetic, it transparently supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and decimal floating point numbers.