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Old 05-29-2016, 03:57 AM   #79676
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
We've passed two possible roadblocks - 32767 and 65535. I rather doubt that 100,000 will be an issue. Getting past 2147483647 might not be possible, but it will be a while before we find out...
Ah, thanks for the opportunity for some enlightening Sunday morning googling.
But why were people so worried about the "millennium bug" back in the day, when it all comes down to binary numbers anyway?

And when we get to 2147483647, I am confident we will have 64-bit signed integers at least, won't we?
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