HN continues to impress (opens in new tab)

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2 pointsthrowaway52507y ago1 comments

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HN is written in Arc that is written in Racket that has bignums, so you it can handle very big numbers.

(But if you add and stupidly amount of 0's, the server refuses to use the number and start with 1. I guess it has some kind of filtering.)

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(news.ycombinator.com)

2 pointsthrowaway52507y ago1 comments

HN is written in Arc that is written in Racket that has bignums, so you it can handle very big numbers.

(But if you add and stupidly amount of 0's, the server refuses to use the number and start with 1. I guess it has some kind of filtering.)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse