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I think that it would be cool to have bignums in Emacs Lisp.  I also
think that Gnus should be modified to use a data type for article
numbers and to fall back gracefully when some operations cannot be
done for article numbers, such as compressing a range, or computing
the number of messages in a range.

kai
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I like BOTH kinds of music.