Could you humor a coding noob--how do you deal with utterly insane inputs like that?
Arbitrary precision arithmetic (GMP, BigInteger, etc). Numbers can take arbitrary amounts of memory, instead of just a single machine word.
You first ask if you really need to.
Crash and report an error.
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Arbitrary precision arithmetic (GMP, BigInteger, etc). Numbers can take arbitrary amounts of memory, instead of just a single machine word.