Austin Z. Henley I work on AI + developer tools. 6/13/2024What happens when numbers get too big for a computer to work with? For example, a 64-bit unsigned integer can be as large as 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. That is... huge. But what if it isn't enough? Enter bignums, or arbitrary-precision numbers. These very, very large numbers allow you to go beyond CPU limitations for representing integers and performing arithmetic, limited only by the computer's memory. If you open up Python and throw so...