On 11 Oct 2014, at 00:40, Lester Caine <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What you want is 64-bit data handling. This is arbitrary-bit data handling. It’s not a
>> “wrong approach”.
>
> So BIGINT on 32 bit platforms will be different to BIGINT on 64 bit
> platforms? BIGINT is a fix length number not a variable one …
“Bigints” typically refer to arbitrary-size integers, that is, their size is bounded only by the
amount of RAM available.
I don’t know what you think a “bigint” is, but it’s different to everyone else.
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