Re: What's wrong with long long?

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 06/17/04


Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:02:11 GMT

In article <can5vl$mr2$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk> Carlos <abuse@spamcop.net> writes:
...
> I first encountered the need to represent numbers larger than those
> representable by 32 bit ints about 3 days after leaving university, when
> dealing with Turkish Lira.
>
> 2,147,483,647 TRL is currently less than £800/$1500, so that's a
> reasonably common use I'd say.

Do they really go to the Lira in accounting and whatever? The last time
I was there, the last four digits were zero and cut off on most price
lists.

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