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by tgbrter 4068 days ago
I disagree. You can reduce space usage with a logarithmic complexity. A couple tens of bytes is enough to store miliseconds until the heat death of the universe.
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Just drag the complexity of bignum arithmetic into a hard-realtime embedded system... What could possibly go wrong?
I was not implying that.

Nothing. Built in arithmetic will do the job nicely.