Comment on Ask HN: largest number you've had to store in an application?Comments−peterhi16yI used to work for an egg wholesaler. We paid the farmers by the egg according to grade. We accounted in eggs.Do you know how many eggs are sold in the UK?We had to write a special class to handle eggs because we blew the unsigned integer on a VAX.−mahmud16yBignums, my friend. BCD is also good for real-world numbers, like money or eggs.
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I used to work for an egg wholesaler. We paid the farmers by the egg according to grade. We accounted in eggs.
Do you know how many eggs are sold in the UK?
We had to write a special class to handle eggs because we blew the unsigned integer on a VAX.
Bignums, my friend. BCD is also good for real-world numbers, like money or eggs.