> How can I validate if computing 2^500 is safe without, you know, asking the > computer to compute 2^500 and dealing with the overflow?
Is there some way to check the hardware capabilities? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but C (for instance) will tell you what the max integer is, and it ought to be easy to work out from that whether 2^500 is safe. I imagine Nim will do the same but it's been a while since I looked at this.
