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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: > I would reject the concept of inexact integers .... While they seem silly for small integers, inexact integers make sense for huge values. For example, people often round huge integers to the nearest million or billion. An even better example: Avogadro's number is an integer, but it should not be represented as an exact integer, because its exact value is unknown. -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd