It seems I'm the only one with this opinion but I ...
# advent-of-codek
Kroppeb
12/09/2019, 11:50 AMIt seems I'm the only one with this opinion but I really disliked today's challenge. I feel like the "support large numbers" is not only very weird and unexpected for an **Int**Computer, but also really favors scripting languages like python (which use BigInt by default since 3.0) and javascript, lua ... which use doubles.
Kroppeb
12/09/2019, 11:57 AMOn top of that "support large numbers" is very vague. What is a large number? I think 2 billion is large but clearly not large enough. I guess I should have know that it should fir in doubles and longs as AoC doesn't normally force people to use libraries and not all languages have a bigInt in their stdlib, but by this time I was already too salty to think clearly.
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Alowaniak
12/09/2019, 1:03 PMWell I would say Int is kinda hijacked by some languages to be within a range. So I don't see why large numbers would be weird or unexpected for an *Integer*Computer
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poohbar
12/09/2019, 6:32 PM"integer" in math sense does not really have any bounds
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