;Task: Explicitly implement   [[wp:long multiplication|long multiplication]]. This is one possible approach to arbitrary-precision integer algebra. For output, display the result of   264 * 264. The decimal representation of   264   is: 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 The output of   264 * 264   is   2128,   and is: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456