whats a good way to make sure a numeric (long) doe...

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[reik.schatz]

whats a good way to make sure a numeric (long) doesn’t overflow? how about val number = Math.max(x, x + y)

[marstran]

If you're on the JVM, you can use Math.addExact(x, y) which will throw an ArithmeticException if it overflows.

[Jan Stoltman]

Or you could use java.math.BigInteger if that's useful for you

[reik.schatz]

thanks for the suggestion guys.