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Re: arithmetic issues

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Thomas Bushnell BSG scripsit:

> > Can you live with 2^24?
> 
> No.  Have you heard of sparse arrays?  They need indices too.

Sparse arrays are not a fundamental R[56]RS type like strings and vectors.
The question is whether these native types need to be Really Really Big.

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