Comments on: I broke inspectd.com again - can’t go over $100 septillion http://www.uglychart.com/2008/04/15/i-broke-inspectdcom-again-cant-go-over-100-septillion/ Beauty is in the eye of the shareholder Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:37:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jason Coleman http://www.uglychart.com/2008/04/15/i-broke-inspectdcom-again-cant-go-over-100-septillion/#comment-36407 Jason Coleman Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:20:37 +0000 http://www.uglychart.com/2008/04/15/i-broke-inspectdcom-again-cant-go-over-100-septillion/#comment-36407 They're probably using MySQL for the DB. Here are the limits on MySQL data types: http://help.scibit.com/Mascon/masconMySQL_Field_Types.html From that page: --- For BigInts, The signed range is –9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. The unsigned range is 0 to 18446744073709551615 For Doubles, Ranges are -1.7976931348623157E+308 to -2.2250738585072014E-308, 0 and 2.2250738585072014E-308 to 1.7976931348623157E+308. --- My head explodes trying to work with numbers this big. I'm guessing they could string things along a bit further by switching bigints to doubles, if they are using bigints now. And I don't know how many Septillions 1.7976 E+308 is, but doesn't the "308" part there imply 308 zeroes (or places) before the decimal, which is a bit more than your 100 Septillion. They’re probably using MySQL for the DB. Here are the limits on MySQL data types:
http://help.scibit.com/Mascon/masconMySQL_Field_Types.html

From that page:
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For BigInts, The signed range is –9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807. The unsigned range is 0 to 18446744073709551615

For Doubles, Ranges are -1.7976931348623157E+308 to -2.2250738585072014E-308, 0 and 2.2250738585072014E-308 to 1.7976931348623157E+308.
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My head explodes trying to work with numbers this big. I’m guessing they could string things along a bit further by switching bigints to doubles, if they are using bigints now.

And I don’t know how many Septillions 1.7976 E+308 is, but doesn’t the “308″ part there imply 308 zeroes (or places) before the decimal, which is a bit more than your 100 Septillion.

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