> The most sensible approach is to break out bigint/bigrat when it is needed. ... Python does it

Really? That's surprising me a bit... can you provide evidence for this?

From my experience is Python "more" typed than Perl, leading to 3/2==1 because it assumes that's an integer operation only.

edit
OK, looks good in Python3, seems they also fixed the division issue from Python2 
:~$ python3
Python 3.12.3 (main, Feb  4 2025, 14:48:35) [GCC 13.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> 3/2
1.5
>>> (2**4711+1)-2**4711
1
>>>

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update

LOL, I suppose nobody is perfect...

>>> (2**(128/2)+1)-2**64
0.0
>>> (2**(64)+1)-2**64
1
>>> (2**(128//2)+1)-2**64
1
>>>

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Seems like 128/2 being a float, breaks the workaround xD

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re^8: Largest integer in 64-bit perl (UPDATED) by LanX
in thread Largest integer in 64-bit perl by harangzsolt33

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