Limit the range of valid exponents in Number

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Limit the range of valid exponents in Number

mpnd opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

This is to prevent memory blow up.

Wilko Henecka · Answer 1 · Tue Jan 05 2016 13:31:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I don't understand this issue. Exponents are represented by int. That's always the same amount of memory. Limiting the range of int won't change anything.

mpnd · Answer 2 · Fri Jun 17 2016 07:58:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

The main reason to limit the range of valid exponents is to prevent the significand from getting too large.

While Number class has been removed in 84b894a, could this still be relevant for EncodedNumber?