On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

<3 Haskell.

Prelude> 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 + 1
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

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