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tptacek on Oct 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is your favourite C programming trick?

No, you'd have a truncated string.

You really think we'll be dealing with 512 bit integers in 40 years? This is code that's turning integers into decimal strings.

cperciva on Oct 14, 2011 [–]

Either my calendar is wrong, or 2153 is far more than 40 years away.

I wasn't being serious, though.

tptacek on Oct 14, 2011 | [–]

Sorry. I can't read today. :)

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