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Definitely (and I'm happy to write a friendlier comment reply, believe me!).

Bignums are good, in Dart as in other languages. On the agenda for "Harmony-era" ECMAScript, going back to 2009:

http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:bignums

More recent work generalizes value types into an extension mechanism for JS, so you can have built-in and user-defined numeric types with operators and literals.




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