Big Integer Limitations
Discussions focus on the constraints of fixed-size integers like 32-bit and 64-bit in programming languages, overflows, and the need for big integer libraries or arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
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Almost all numbers aren't 53-bit integers (or smaller) :P
It depends what you mean by "numbers": all integers or just 64-bit ones?
It's so big that you'll need a 64-bit variable to store that value.
That's long, not int. Approximately nobody has 64 bit int.
Clever. Is this possible with 64-bit numbers somehow?
Option 1 + Decide that you don't care about numbers bigger than 2 billion. Problem solved!
Practical or not most default integer types do not support arbitrarily large numbers
Why is it 64 bit now? Isn't it know that 292277026596 would be the cutoff?
Perhaps a stupid question, but can't this be generalized to arbitrary size integers?
because many programming languages dont support anything beyond 64 bit integers.