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Subject: Re: Fortran was NOT higher level than C. Was: Computer architects
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On 2024-09-05 14:36, Michael S wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2024 13:04:24 +0300
> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know much about typical users of Modern Fortran, but would
>> think that those coming from other languages, esp. from Python, would
>> appreciate built-in infinite-precision integers
> 
> Somehow I feel that both "infinite-precision integers" and "arbitrary
> precision integers" are both misnomers. But they are established terms
> and I don't know how to express it better. May be, "arbitrary range" ?


Ada calls then "Big", as in Big_Integers, Big_Reals.

One of the few cases where Ada follows the common jargon -- "bignums" -- 
to keep things short.