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clark_dent • yesterday at 3:58 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Could you humor a coding noob--how do you deal with utterly insane inputs like that?

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Ekaros • today at 9:46 AM

At some point you can just refuse. Too many digits. Well time to quit with error.

matthewkayin • yesterday at 4:22 PM

You first ask if you really need to.

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wwalexander • yesterday at 5:17 PM

Arbitrary precision arithmetic (GMP, BigInteger, etc). Numbers can take arbitrary amounts of memory, instead of just a single machine word.

doubled112 • yesterday at 4:20 PM

Crash and report an error.

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