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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Java vs C++
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In message <4d4f693f@news.x-privat.org>, Ken Wesson wrote:

> Heck, they had BigInteger from the outset and could have gone so far as
> to include a true numeric tower, implicit conversions all the way up to
> BigInteger ...

Which is what Python did.