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From: Edi Weitz <spamt...@agharta.de>
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Subject: Re: size of a bignum
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:19:22 +0200
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:12:37 +0200, Jim Newton <ji...@rdrop.com> wrote:

> however, i was (and still is not) clear to me how to make the bignum 0?

You can't. An integer is either a fixnum or a bignum but not both.

CLHS entry for system class INTEGER: "The types fixnum and bignum form
an exhaustive partition of type integer." (See glossary entry for
"exhaustive partition.")

Or see the entry for the type BIGNUM: "The type bignum is defined to
be exactly (and integer (not fixnum))."

Cheers,
Edi.

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