[armedbear-devel] BigNum question

[archisman rudra]

Thanks, that was my error. This flurry of emails made me go look at the
hyperspec.

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:

> archisman rudra <archi.rudra at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My confusion is whether it matters that  2147483648
> > < 1234567898723618080928927362387
> >
> > Doesn't the type descriptor (INTEGER 2147483648) mean integers upto
> 2147483648?
>
> No, the INTEGER type specifier takes two arguments. The first one
> expresses the lower bound, and the optional second the upper bound. If
> the second argument is omitted, it defaults to *, meaning no upper
> bound.
>
> (MOD 2147483648) is more what you're thinking of.
>
> Zach
>
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