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		thrownaway2424 on Nov 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Portable Native Client I'm not sure the poster meant "bignum" as in huge numbers like GnuMP handles, or if he meant exact 64-bit integers, which JS doesn't have (natively).

azakai on Nov 13, 2013 | [–]

I think true arbitrary-size bignums, because that's what Dart has?

leoc on Nov 13, 2013 | [–]

The former - afaik, in computing 'bignums' has always been taken to mean arbitrary-precision integers.

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