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In article <84n0kn9vdh.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>,
kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Gro=DFjohann) wrote:
> For the integer limit, well, err, somebody should do bignums in Emacs
> Lisp :-)

Calc has code for this, although it's probably not very fast.
--=20
Shields.