arbitrary precision support opinions

[Martin McDermott]

Hello

I wondering what people think about  arbitrary precision support(mostly for large integers).

I'm pretty new to Octave, but it does sound pretty handy and like it would put it a step above Matlab. Ive also been looking for a interesting project for awhile now, so I'm not expecting/demanding this feature out of anyone.

So, do you guys think it would be useful? Would it be used by anyone else? Any potential problems or general objections? 

At first it could just be a simple ifndef to choose, and maybe later it could be a option during runtime (I'm not sure how yet).

This would be a pretty big project for me so Id just like some input about it first.

Thanks

Marty