I don't know why you'd really want to store numbers that big.  Since 
mysql's aggregate functions wouldn't work on them anyway, just store the 
numbers as strings.

At 03:53 PM 1/25/2001 -0500, Ashutosh Somani wrote:
>Hi,
>I am working on an application where I need to be able to store 96 bit 
>numbers. As I understand it, however, the largest size that can be stored 
>in MySQL is 2^64 using Big Integer. Has anyone run into this problem 
>before? Does anyone know of an easy work around for this?  Thanks!
>Please CC me on any replies as I am not part of the mailing list yet.


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