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JANET's big-endian way as one in the U.K. (domain uk) or in the

standard little-endian way as one in the domain as (American Samoa) on

the opposite side of the world.

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bignum /big'nuhm/ n.

[common; orig. from MIT MacLISP] 1. [techspeak] A multiple-precision

computer representation for very large integers. 2. More generally,

any very large number. "Have you ever looked at the United States

Budget? There's bignums for you!" 3. [Stanford] In backgammon, large

numbers on the dice especially a roll of double fives or double sixes

(compare [1342]moby, sense 4). See also [1343]El Camino Bignum.

Sense 1 may require some explanation. Most computer languages provide

a kind of data called `integer', but such computer integers are

usually very limited in size; usually they must be smaller than 2^(31)

(2,147,483,648) or (on a [1344]bitty box) 2^(15) (32,768). If you want

to work with numbers larger than that, you have to use floating-point

numbers, which are usually accurate to only six or seven decimal

places. Computer languages that provide bignums can perform exact

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