Thanks for the ideas. Sorry for the ignorance, but do you have any thoughts about how one would go about printing the values of such a thing without resorting to repeated mods and divides? That is _extremely_ slow for huge numbers no matter how fast a division algorithm you've.
Ahh... For printing? Then I think you are stuck converting the values using the method you described (unless of course you are printing in some base 2^n). It because a trade-off at this point: which is more important, printing or some of these operations? The answer of course is dependent on what you want to do with this class.
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If you want fast bitwise arithmetic, store the number as base 2 or 256 internally, instead of base 10.
If you're using base 10, the logical result of "n<<1" would be to multiply n by 10.
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