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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strtol and strtoul...
Message-ID: <21318@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 89 20:08:57 GMT
References: <3233@com50.C2S.MN.ORG> <21305@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <21305@mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote:
>strtoul("340282366920938463463374607431768211456", &ptr, 0);
>... *is* too big (unless you have 128 bit `long's) ....

Oops, that should be `greater than 128 bit'.  The number in double
quotes there is $2^{128}$ (or $2 sup 128$ for troff folks), which
is just barely too big for a 128 bit unsigned long.
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