Strtol and strtoul...

[Chris Torek]

In article <21305 at mimsy.umd.edu> I wrote:
>strtoul("340282366920938463463374607431768211456", &ptr, 0);
>... *is* too big (unless you have 128 bit `long's) ....

Oops, that should be `greater than 128 bit'.  The number in double
quotes there is $2^{128}$ (or $2 sup 128$ for troff folks), which
is just barely too big for a 128 bit unsigned long.
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