# Discussion about integer overflow

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-about-integer-overflow/69627
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** numbers, integer-overflow
**Created:** [October 11, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-about-integer-overflow/69627 "2021-10-11T12:44:33Z")
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### Author: ![lmiq](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/lmiq/32/18314_2.png) [@lmiq](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/lmiq)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2021, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-about-integer-overflow/69627/25 "2021-10-12T14:14:26Z")

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There is this package:

[https://docs.juliahub.com/SafeREPL/vNvbl/0.1.0/](https://docs.juliahub.com/SafeREPL/vNvbl/0.1.0/)

Yet, perhaps in any language it is too much to ask that computer-precision arithmetic will behave as exact arithmetic in any case. Probably one can always build some corner case example where the result is not what one would expect. Dealing explicitly with such limitations of the representation of the number in computers is probably important if the application is critical.

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