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		fauigerzigerk on Feb 12, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Appropriate Uses for SQLite Integers are not magic. If you want arbitrary precision on top of integers you're going to need arbitrarily long integers as well.

aeorgnoieang on Feb 12, 2018 [–]

I was referring to Ruby and based on the first sentence I quoted:

> Ruby provides built-in support for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic.

[I'm also assuming that it's really arbitrary precision and not just 'really big but limited' precision.]

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