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Re:Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video] by raverbashing on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:04AM (#8771656)
> Python ints are arb precision

Python 2 longs or Python 3 ints ;)

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Re:Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video] by willvarfar on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:30AM (#8771706)
Automatic promotion from a 32-bit or 64-bit storage to arbitrary precision.
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