Elliott Hird wrote: >This is where you switch to a language that does bignums ;)
Fortunately I already store it as a string. We had similar shenanigans last year. Proposal 4909 had AI=1.00000000000000000000000001337, to find out whether there was any floating-point rounding in the promotor's automation. And proposal 4903 had AI="2 yellow smarties". Most programming languages' numeric data types are really crap at storing arbitrary numbers. They tend to be machine registers wearing wigs, not the mathematical abstractions that we naively imagine. -zefram
