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Biggest Bignum

John May 2616
March 27 2008
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On his blog, Jaime Zawinski (of Netscape and XEmacs fame) relates a tale of finding limits in the (supposedly) unlimited big number representation on a TI Lisp machine in the early 1990s. It is an amusing story, and it makes me wonder if GnuMP is has a similar limit on a different scale.  Or in other words, is there a positive integer small enough to fit into memory  (assuming 64 bit address space) but that cannot actually be constructed in GnuMP due to limits in the implementation? Does someone here know enough about the GnuMP internals to give the answer?
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