> Your options are to increase the number of bits used, which puts off the overflow, or you could work with infinite precision arithmetic, which would slowly use up the available memory and finally bring the system down.
Pedantically true for an infinite universe, but merely moving the counter to 64 bits would give one 2^32 * 248 days, lets say we only use 30 bits, we still on the order of a billion years for 4 extra bytes.
Pedantically true for an infinite universe, but merely moving the counter to 64 bits would give one 2^32 * 248 days, lets say we only use 30 bits, we still on the order of a billion years for 4 extra bytes.