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Basically what I need is an integer that is equal to 2 left-shifted 160 times, so something like 2 << 160. The problem with that is apparently you can't shift something more than 30 times. I found a way to represent it as a string, which looks like this:
The problem with that is I need it in integer form, and neither atoi nor strtol work. Any suggestions?Code:unsigned char pbmodulus[21];
memset(pbmodulus, 0, sizeof(pbmodulus));
pbmodulus[0] = 0x01;
I assume what you mean when you say you need it in integer form is that you need to perform some mathematical operations on it. In that case, you'll either need a library that can handle such large numbers (gmp is a good one) or you'll need to write your own code to do the same thing.
An 'int' type can generally hold 4 bytes of data (at least on a 32-bit machine) which means 2^32 values. Your compiler might support something non-standard like long long which would probably hold 64 bits, but that still wouldn't be sufficient in this case.
I was afraid of that, do you by chance know a way to represent that number as a hex string? I thought my string code would be hex, but when I try to import it into a 3rd party function that's supposed to accept hex strings, it says it's improperly formatted. When I tried to e-mail the guy that made the library he told me that 0x01 wasn't a valid hex character. Is that true?
I'm not sure what you mean. 0x01 is a hex number, but not if you want it to be a character in a string representing a hex number (e.g., "FF").