I have a case where some values in a data file have 64 bit wrap around which makes them very large, like, 18446744073709551608
.
So I have to perform a subtraction from 2^64. I tried this using the simple
2^64 - 18446744073709551608
But I guess this number is too large and don't get the actual answer 8. What do I need to do to perform this substraction.
Check out the bignum
pragma:
use bignum;
print 2**64 - 18446744073709551608;
This should properly print 8
.
Note that bignum is just a layer that makes all constant numbers automatically Math::BigFloat or Math::BigInt objects. If you only want this for some numbers, you can either specify the use bignum;
in a restricted scope, add no bignum;
in places, or explicitly use Math::BigFloat->new('your constant')
(or BigInt) to make particular numbers and the results of any operations involving them big.
use bignum ;
print 2**64 - 18446744073709551608 ,"\n" ;
in perl language , ^ = ** , mod = %
good luck !