X-Git-Url: https://mattmccutchen.net/bigint/bigint.git/blobdiff_plain/05780f4b578d6ae054be0b19b8498d32a4f16c60..a82332d03045a6029b01b694cdca1acdb85ecadf:/BigInteger.hh diff --git a/BigInteger.hh b/BigInteger.hh index e206718..c6bd908 100644 --- a/BigInteger.hh +++ b/BigInteger.hh @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ /* * Matt McCutchen's Big Integer Library -* http://mysite.verizon.net/mccutchen/bigint/ */ #ifndef BIGINTEGER @@ -15,8 +14,9 @@ * 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