The BigInt class implements integers with unbounded precision. BigInts support the classical algorithms of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division giving a quotient and remainder.
This class is no longer really relevant since the standard Java classes, as of JDK 1.1, include the class java.math.BigInteger. Since java.math.BigInteger is a standard class one hopes that the implementors of Java runtime systems will use platform optimized native methods, perhaps something like the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.
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