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Yeah! Programmers are quite familiar with this universe. In many programming languages, you can't represent 2^64 with a built-in integral datatype. While it'
by boothby 3y ago
Yeah! Programmers are quite familiar with this universe. In many programming languages, you can't represent 2^64 with a built-in integral datatype. While it's certainly possible to implement data structures and algorithms to support arbitrary-size integer arithmetic, most programmers don't! They just pretend that numbers larger than 2^64-1 do not exist! And, that's a fairly safe assumption for many real-world applications.
But even with that arbitrary-size integer arithmetic, your mathematical universe is still bounded by your computational environment's resources.