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by rzzzt 969 days ago
I would like to store, then retrieve exactly 1234567890123456789 apples instead of 1.070816993713379 × 2⁶⁰ = 1234567939550609408. Unfortunately due to IEEE-754 conversions I can only do this up to 7-8 digits or so. This is a number, just not one that can be represented as a Number without loss of precision towards the end.
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that's more apples than we can fit on the planet. For such special tasks I would think it's ok to need special tools