From: Jedediah Smith <jedediah AT interlog DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Really Huge Numbers
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 22:51:02 -0700
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Lord Daedron wrote:
> 
> Another one my current projects is a DOS install program to be used with my
> other projects.  I have it completed, but i have a problem:  I wish to store
> the file sizes of all files packed in my compressed archive, along with the
> total of all file sizes.  Using an unsigned int ( I read this is same as
> unsigned long? ) this gives me a maximum of about 4 megs ( any bigger
> numbers will overflow ).  Is there a bigger integer type or a class for
> stroing really huge numbers so I could install more than 4 megs?

Actually it's 4 gigs. And if that still isn't enough, you could use a 64
bit long long which will go up to, I believe, 16 million terrabytes.

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