Posted by unrein on 1999-09-06
palfrader> AFAIK (and that may be complete nonsense) a list is just a linked list palfrader> with two data entries with each node. I understand that but how does lisp get around the processors limit. According to my lisp teacher, lisp has no limit on a number's size except for memory. so for a general asm add function you're limited to 0 to 2^64( or 32?) depending on the processor. Using lisp( or as i understand) you can go beyond the 2^64 size. So in lisp I could use something like 2^1024 or 2*3000 with all the digits (no loss of percision).
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