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		nmz 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua For bignums, have you tried this? https://web.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#limath luajit does have integers (try 5ull+6), bit operations via the bit library (absorbed from lua5.2)

pmarreck 11 months ago [–]

How does imath compare to gmp?

nmz 11 months ago | [–]

In lua? It works for one.

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