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On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 5:49:14 PM UTC, Mark Carroll wrote:
> 
> > If you have algorithms to implement that need big integers, then Python
> > is in my personal experience the best language to use, since you can
> > simply employ the common arithmetic operators.
> (snip)
> 
> While I generally agree with the rest of your article, it's worth noting
> that this feature isn't actually all that unusual: for instance, I
> mentioned Erlang in this thread, that's just the same:
> 
Yes, because as soon as you move away from holding variables in 
registers, and thus having only a handful of types, adding high-level
big scalars is as easy as pie.
But it's great for little toy demo programs, not much use practically.
You hardly ever need big integers and arbitrary-precision floats,
and when you do, it's usually in the guts of encryption algorithms,
GUID generators, hashing functions and the like, which are best
written in low-level C.

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