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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Big Integer Support
From: johannes@schlueters.de (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 17:05 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> BIGINT is a cleanly defined concept and something we have had to cope
> with for some time since PHP does not support 64 bit integers cleanly.
> Now that 64 bit builds support a clean 64 bit integer, the problem
> arises that 32 bit builds will handle this in the old way.

        Arbitrary-precision arithmetic
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
          (Redirected from Bigint)
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigint
        
        In computer science, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, also called
        bignum arithmetic, multiple precision arithmetic, or sometimes
        infinite-precision arithmetic, indicates that calculations are
        performed on numbers whose digits of precision are limited only
        by the available memory of the host system. This contrasts with
        the faster fixed-precision arithmetic found in most arithmetic
        logic unit (ALU) hardware, which typically offers between 8 and
        64 bits of precision
        [...]
        
But that's bikesheding, if we like we can call it also
yellow-blue-striped birds with red dots. Please discuss the contents not
the painting. Thanks.

johannes