On Monday, October 13, 2014 4:34:16 AM UTC-4, Laurens Van Houtven wrote:
>
> Hi Ashish, 
>
>
> At first sight, this looks like a numerical precision problem. 1e80 is a 
> floating point type, not an integer type. You may want to try with e.g. 
> 1000000000000000N (note the N; that makes it a bigint). I don’t know of any 
> nice syntax for describing extremely large bigints; e.g exponent notation. 
>

1e80N doesn't work, but 1e80M does, and so does 1E400M so it's not going 
through a double on the way (or it would turn into an infinity at that 
stage). That's a BigDecimal but then, (bigint 1E400M) works just fine. 
Though it prints rather inefficiently. :)

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