Old snapshot `bigint-2006.04.24'; see the ChangeLog file.

[bigint/bigint.git] / BigInteger.hh

diff --git a/BigInteger.hh b/BigInteger.hh
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--- a/BigInteger.hh
+++ b/BigInteger.hh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
 * Matt McCutchen's Big Integer Library
-* http://mysite.verizon.net/mccutchen/bigint/
+* http://hashproduct.metaesthetics.net/bigint/
 */
 
 #ifndef BIGINTEGER
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 * and many math operations are defined on BigIntegers.
 *
 * The number is stored as a series of blocks in a
-* dynamically allocated array.  It is as if the numbers
-* were written digit by digit in base 256 ^ sizeof(unsigned long).
+* dynamically allocated array.  It is as if the number
+* were written digit by digit in base 2 ^ N, **where N is the
+* number of bits in an unsigned long.**
 *
 * This class is derived from BigUnsigned, which represents
 * a large nonnegative integer.  BigUnsigned should be studied