[NTG-context] About xdecimal

[Hans Hagen]

On 12/28/2020 2:33 PM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> Hi, list.
> 
> I've tried using the xdecimal library included with LuaMetaTeX and I 
> have some remarks:
> 
> 1. Shifts are decimal, not binary: 145 >> 1 gives 14.

this is how decnumber defines shift: digits

> 2. Integer division (//) is not implemented. Is that by design?

i'll add that one

> 3. Following 2, what would be the way to handle integer division, 
> remainder... for large numbers?

i'll add a % b

> Thank you in advance.
better first do the testing

Hans

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