I never had this problem, but I've heard of NASA software projects that were 
commanded to use an [arbitrary precision 
library](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arbitrary-precision_arithmetic_software)
 for absolutely positively everything numeric. I think they had an auditing 
tool that listed all types used anywhere in the program, and alerted about the 
"bad" native types. That was the basis of many jokes about that 4,294,967,296th 
engine not breaking the code.. 

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