From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: having trouble with long numbers
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Date: 29 Jul 1997 23:45:35 GMT
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Mark Levis (mlevis AT voyager DOT net) wrote:

: Use a double. It will have precision up to 14 digits. An int will only
: handle number from
: -32767 to 32768.
: unsigned int 0 65535

That's compiler dependent; since this was cross-posted to
comp.os.msdos.djgpp I assume the compiler in question is the gcc with
djgpp, which uses 32-bit ints by default, not 16-bit. The range is about
four (American) billion I believe.

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford