On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:17:55AM +0000, Alex Gough wrote: > Yes, at some point allowing 10**222222222222222222222, is just silly, > and I doubt the potentional applications are numerous enough to > warrant trying it. So long as we're clear about what the limits are,
about 10**98 particles in the universe, isn't it? How many real world calculations seriously need numbers considerably larger than that? [IEEE doubles go to 10**308 don't they? How often is that limit a problem?] > and raise exceptions if a) they're breached, and b) people ask for > them, then everything will end up being ok. ENOTENOUGHELECTRONSTOWRITETHATNUMBERDOWNON Nicholas Clark -- ENOCFT
