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* Re: Arithmetic overflow error when Gnus connects to courier IMAP server
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@ 2003-12-18 20:55   ` Christoph Conrad
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From: Christoph Conrad @ 2003-12-18 20:55 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi Kai,

    > A third way is to modify Gnus to use some other data structure
    > for article numbers.

A workaround for all systems would be to use doubles explicitely, e.g.
to parse the article number as double. This could be achieved by
adding ".0" to the article number string. Mantissa of doubles are
quite long, at least 38 bit.

Herzliche Grüße,
  Christoph
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