Implementing a bignum calculator Sydney Go meetup 19 Nov 2014 Rob Pike Google History 2 The Unix Programming Environment Published in 1984, 30 years ago. www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/index.html 3 The Unix Programming Environment in Australia 4 hoc Demo 5 Weaknesses Developed for pedagogy, not power. Floating point only. Decimal only. Simplistic. Want something that can handle arbitrary precision