I am writing functions that would convert Array{UInt8,1} to BigInt and vice versa. From BigInt to Array I use to do as follows, through an hexadecimal string. function int2bytes(x::Integer) hex = string(x, base=16) if mod(length(hex), 2) != 0 hex = string("0", hex) end ret…

Converting UInt8 Array to BigInt, and back

gdkrmr January 2, 2019, 1:28pm 17

Some time ago I started something like this, but it turned out to require more work than I was willing to put into it:

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