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From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
To: "Noam Preil" <noam@pixelhero.dev>, "Drew Devault"
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Subject: Re: BARE variable width integers
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:51:02 -0400
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It's the largest commonly available integer size and avoids having to
implicate a bigint library for most implementations.