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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, at 13:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
> The Python integer type stores arbitrary precision. It's not a machine
> word, like the C# integer types (plural, or does it have only one?

C# has the usual assortment of fixed-width integer types - though by
default they throw exceptions on overflow instead of wrapping around -
and a BigInteger type in the library.