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> Quoth Per Bothner [mailto:bothner@cygnus.com]: > > "D'Arcy Smith" <darcy@itools.symantec.com> writes: > > > [crypto] is what [BigInteger] is was written for in the first place > > > apparently... > > I had the (unsubstantiated) impression was that it was written for > > JDBC (i.e. a needed SQL data type). Certainly, I can't imagine > > BigDecimal being useful for crypto, but big decimal integers > > (at least 18 digits) are needed for database applications. > His assumption was probably based on this constructor: No my assumption was based on a conversation I had with the original author a couple of years ago... ..darcy -- D'Arcy Smith Sr. Software Engineer Symantec Corp., Internet Tools Division