On 08-01-97 (20:19) MARTIN MAAT wrote
MM> I ran into an (new?) type this week which seems to fulfill
MM> the need for big integers. I never noticed it earlier so it's
MM> probably new to Delphi 3. The type is called Comp and although
MM> the compiler treats it as a float type, it is really a signed
MM> double (64 bit) integer and you can treat it as such as you
MM> wish.
Comp has been around for at least 10 years.  It's found in
   Turbo Pascal 5.0 (circa 1987), 5.5, 6.0, 7.0
   Delphi 1, 2, 3
I don't have a manual on TP 4.0, but I've seen 4.0 code that used a
variable called comp, so I doubt that is was defined at that time.
When computer languages were invented, they should have allowed for
numbers far in excess of the size of the US national debt.
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