@John Adams How do you know it will be ok till 58821? How many new twitter user sign-up each days? I just do a google and 2^64 = *1.84467441 × 1019*I don't know how you calculater which days? We can not know how many news user will register twitter?
2009/8/1 John Adams <[email protected]> > > > On Jul 31, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Andrew Badera wrote: > > but why not go with 128 bit decimal/floating point precision datatypes to >> begin with, and never have this issue? if anyone says "overhead" I'm gonna >> whack 'em like a popup weasel. in this day and age of CPU cycles and RAM, >> you might as well go big or go home. >> > > > Because none of us will be alive in the year 58,821. > > -john > >
