Re: (geen onderwerp)

Gert Baars wrote:

Then what if A and B are Int64's. Intermediate results
still can become too large.

Correct. A good programmer knows this and will either choose the
correct data type to do the calculations with (e.g. if Int64 is too
small, you choose one of the floating point types), or choose the order
of calculations thus that the results will fit.

You can't expect the compiler to do all the thinking for you, or even
to choose the correct types for you.
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