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A lot of languages also get arithmetic right, for example Python. Most languages that get it 'wrong' are low-level languages (such as C), which have a good reason, as CPUs have limited width registers. However, I agree that there is no excuse for Javascript to not have arbitrary length integers. Then again, that language is broken and ugly in a lot of ways.



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