Discussion on Capacity to Represent BigInt
TLDR ilia inquired about adding unsigned int64 for BigInt representation. Kishore Nallan suggested no immediate plans, but highlighted a workaround and also warned about misusing float for large values.
Aug 04, 2023 (4 months ago)
ilia
02:15 PMKishore Nallan
02:39 PMKishore Nallan
02:40 PMilia
03:46 PMfloat
) works fine for me, as I need to represent js BigInts.Kishore Nallan
03:48 PMilia
04:03 PMTypesense
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