How to exceed te maxiumum numbers allowed by Lua?

[tjpc3 0]

I'm a situation where I'm writing programs that do arithmetic on large numbers for encryption. However, Lua hates large numbers and changes any number that is 2^1024 or over. Is there any addon or something else that I could use to bypass this?

 

Example:

print(4265 ^ 6219)

> inf

[dgelessus 26]

Not really. Lua uses 64-bit signed integers as long as possible (unless you force floating-point numbers by writing 4265.0 instead of 4265) and switches to double-precision floats for anything outside of that range. And if you exceed that range, then you get float infinity.

 

If you're doing cryptography, you might want to look at the Data Card though. If I remember correctly the higher tiers provide some cryptographic functions too.

[Elsys656 0]

there is a bigint implementation that I used in cc from a WoW add-on you'll have to google it but its out there in pure lua but it's not the fastest animal if you don't need to perform calculations against the return value convert it to string.