Warp wrote:
> Fredrik Eriksson <noo### [at] nowherecom> wrote:
>> I am fairly certain he simply means that the range of 'int' in C++ is only  
>> a subset of Z (the set of integers).
> 
>   I would like to see the compiler which manages to handle the entire set
> of integers.

They're called UTMs. Universal Turing Machines. ;-)

But yes, what happens when you exceed what the machine can handle is 
*exactly* what we're talking about here. C does a well-defined but 
surprising-to-the-naive method for dealing with integers too large.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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