Hi Kashyap,

> I am trying to understand how big integers are stored in Picolisp. I notice
> that the ASCII values of the digits are stored in some cases - for example
> 1234 is stored as 0x34333231.

Big integers are always stored in binary representation.

I think what you saw was inside a symbol name. ASCII values are only stored in
the names of symbols, which are technically numbers consisting of the shifted
and combined UTF-8 characters.

☺/ A!ex

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