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[bigint/bigint.git] / BigUnsignedInABase.cc

diff --git a/BigUnsignedInABase.cc b/BigUnsignedInABase.cc
index 4692a0a..b2881e0 100644 (file)
--- a/BigUnsignedInABase.cc
+++ b/BigUnsignedInABase.cc
@@ -1,15 +1,11 @@
 /*
-* Matt McCutchen's Big Integer Library
-*/
-
-/*
-* Milan Tomic had trouble compiling this file on Microsoft
-* Visual C++ 6 because, in the libraries that come with
-* Visual C++ 6, the `std::string::push_back' method apparently
-* does not exist.  To get around the problem, I rewrote
-* `BigUnsignedInABase::operator std::string' (at the bottom
-* of this file) so it doesn't use `push_back'.
-*/
+ * Milan Tomic had trouble compiling this file on Microsoft
+ * Visual C++ 6 because, in the libraries that come with
+ * Visual C++ 6, the `std::string::push_back' method apparently
+ * does not exist.  To get around the problem, I rewrote
+ * `BigUnsignedInABase::operator std::string' (at the bottom
+ * of this file) so it doesn't use `push_back'.
+ */
 
 #include "BigUnsignedInABase.hh"
 
@@ -35,17 +31,17 @@ BigUnsignedInABase::BigUnsignedInABase(const BigUnsigned &x, Base base) {
        // Save the base.
        // This pattern is seldom seen in C++, but the analogous ``this.'' is common in Java.
        this->base = base;
-       
+
        // Get an upper bound on how much space we need
        int maxBitLenOfX = x.getLength() * BigUnsigned::N;
        int minBitsPerDigit = bitLen(base) - 1;
        int maxDigitLenOfX = ceilingDiv(maxBitLenOfX, minBitsPerDigit);
        len = maxDigitLenOfX; // Another change to comply with `staying in bounds'; see `BigUnsigned::divideWithRemainder'.
        allocate(len); // Get the space
-       
+
        BigUnsigned x2(x), buBase(base);
        Index digitNum = 0;
-       
+
        while (!x2.isZero()) {
                // Get last digit.  This is like `lastDigit = x2 % buBase, x2 /= buBase'.
                BigUnsigned lastDigit(x2);
@@ -55,7 +51,7 @@ BigUnsignedInABase::BigUnsignedInABase(const BigUnsigned &x, Base base) {
                // Move on.  We can't run out of room: we figured it out above.
                digitNum++;
        }
-       
+
        // Save the actual length.
        len = digitNum;
 }
@@ -78,12 +74,12 @@ BigUnsignedInABase::BigUnsignedInABase(const std::string &s, Base base) {
        // Save the base.
        // This pattern is seldom seen in C++, but the analogous ``this.'' is common in Java.
        this->base = base;
-       
+
        // `s.length()' is a `size_t', while `len' is a `NumberlikeArray::Index',
        // also known as an `unsigned int'.  Some compilers warn without this cast.
        len = Index(s.length());
        allocate(len);
-       
+
        Index digitNum, symbolNumInString;
        for (digitNum = 0; digitNum < len; digitNum++) {
                symbolNumInString = len - 1 - digitNum;