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Comment by briansm

3 months ago

Interesting that the verified 4-quintillion range is well within 64-bit integer math range (18 quintillion or 9 quintillion signed), no need to go beyond regular 64-bit computing any time soon.

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jay_gridbach  3 months ago

Exactly. At this point WASM was the best choice for me to run the calculation with uint64 as I wasn't sure how much BigInt in JavaScript is efficient.

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