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Re:Opinions of Doron Zeilberger by boothby on Friday January 19, 2024 @06:15PM (#39062709)
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.

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