number handling in java

From: Jeremy Watts (jeremy.watts70_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 04/03/04

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    hi,

    i'm writing an internet maths application at the moment, and am using PHP to
    do it, but it only (only..!) seems to handle numbers in the range -10billion
    to +10billion or in that ballpark.

    I was wondering what sized numbers java can handle. I used a JAVA
    application once that calculated hcf's of 2 numbers, and the numbers it
    handled were huge (and i mean huge). Not sure how it was doing it actually.
    But anyway, what are java limits as far as number size goes?

    jeremy

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