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This means that the instead of fixed width integer types that have a finite maximum due to being 32-bit or 64-bit etc…, the language could use an integer type t
by tcoff91 4y ago
This means that the instead of fixed width integer types that have a finite maximum due to being 32-bit or 64-bit etc…, the language could use an integer type that can grow to be as many bytes as is needed to store the number. This is called a BigInt in JavaScript for instance.