The maximum value for a long is 92,233,720,368,547,758,07l (that's roughly
92 quintillion I believe).
One gigabyte = 1,073,741,824 bytes.
So, you could potentially represent 8,589,934,592 gigabytes using a long.
Is my math off here?
-Original Message-
From: Marcelo Nery dos Santos [ma
You may be able to use BigInteger (arbitrary precision).
-Original Message-
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 November 2005 20:35
To: Jakarta Commons Developers List
Cc: commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: FileSystemUtils
Your welcome :) (I wrote that
Your welcome :) (I wrote that function :) )
I think your right, a double version would certainly be appropriate. Kind
of ashamed I missed that actually :(
I wonder though, what would be the down-side to just having a double
version only? (aside from backward-compatibility at this point)... Would
Good call on point 1... that never even occurred to me but your
absolutely right. That's typical "America is the only country in the
world" thinking I suppose :)
The second point I actually have to look at the code some more and
remember what I was thinking because I can't imagine ever thinkin
