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"textContent": "riking:\n\n> Golang does this, except they decided 256-bit is a good enough approximation of infinity.\n\nThat's basically useless to me. If we wanted `u256`, we'd just add it as a runtime type too.\n\n(Well, probably via https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/3686 )",
"title": "Infinite precision intermediate arithmetic: how much would break?"
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