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Re: No overflow in variables?

From random832@fastmail.us
Subject Re: No overflow in variables?
Date 2014-01-22 18:13 -0500
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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.

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No overflow in variables? Philip Red <filippo.biolcati@googlemail.com> - 2014-01-22 10:09 -0800
  Re: No overflow in variables? Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-01-22 11:18 -0700
  Re:No overflow in variables? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-01-22 13:26 -0500
  Re: No overflow in variables? Philip Red <filippo.biolcati@googlemail.com> - 2014-01-22 10:32 -0800
  Re: No overflow in variables? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 05:26 +1100
    Re: No overflow in variables? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-22 15:55 -0500
    Re: No overflow in variables? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-01-23 11:22 +1300
  Re: No overflow in variables? Philip Red <filippo.biolcati@googlemail.com> - 2014-01-22 10:48 -0800
  Re: No overflow in variables? random832@fastmail.us - 2014-01-22 18:13 -0500
  Re: No overflow in variables? Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2014-01-23 10:14 +0100
  Re: No overflow in variables? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-23 20:36 +1100

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