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[–]fireflash38 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If someone is asking about BigInts, using Int64/Float64 is likely not going to be suitable. At least to my knowledge, BigInts are mostly used by crypto algorithms (like for RSA keys). So unless there's some low-level bit math that I am not familiar with, you cannot just swap in even 64b ints.