// This example demonstrates how to use big.Int to compute the smallest
// Fibonacci number with 100 decimal digits and to test whether it is prime.
func Example_fibonacci() {
// Initialize two big ints with the first two numbers in the sequence.
a := big.NewInt(0)
b := big.NewInt(1)
// Initialize limit as 10^99, the smallest integer with 100 digits.
var limit big.Int
limit.Exp(big.NewInt(10), big.NewInt(99), nil)
// Loop while a is smaller than 1e100.
for a.Cmp(&limit) < 0 {
// Compute the next Fibonacci number, storing it in a.
a.Add(a, b)
// Swap a and b so that b is the next number in the sequence.
a, b = b, a
}
fmt.Println(a) // 100-digit Fibonacci number
// Test a for primality.
// (ProbablyPrimes' argument sets the number of Miller-Rabin
// rounds to be performed. 20 is a good value.)
fmt.Println(a.ProbablyPrime(20))
// Output:
// 1344719667586153181419716641724567886890850696275767987106294472017884974410332069524504824747437757
// false
}
func (a *Mpint) CmpInt64(c int64) int {
if c == 0 {
return a.Val.Sign() // common case shortcut
}
return a.Val.Cmp(big.NewInt(c))
}