March 21, 2007
10:06 p.m.
Josiah Carlson wrote:
Generally, you are pretty safe with 2**64 * increment, but if you are really anal, go with 2**128 * increment, that should keep you safe until the big freeze.
Although this will work for all practical purposes, code which does things like this is still a bit smelly. I prefer it when there are ways of explicitly representing infinitely-large or unbounded values. -- Greg