Thank you, Mark and Mike
Awesome explanation and examples
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Mike Fikes wrote:
> Thanks for the historical perspective, puzzler!
>
> In addition to performance considerations, Clojure Programming points to an
> inconsistency between hash codes for longs and B
Thanks for the historical perspective, puzzler!
In addition to performance considerations, *Clojure Programming* points to
an inconsistency between hash codes for longs and BigIntegers as a
motivation.
Using the example number from that excellent book on Clojure 1.5.1 (on Java
8, FWIW), I ca
Java has a class called java.math.BigInteger. Clojure's biginteger simply
typecasts to the built-in java class.
Several years ago, Clojure exclusively used java.math.BigInteger to handle
integers larger than longs. Back then, Clojure's arithmetic operators
would automatically overflow, so if you
