# Why is 2^63 negative?

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**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** integer-overflow\
**Created:** [October 16, 2020, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-2-63-negative/48513 "2020-10-16T19:18:34Z")\
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There is [SaferIntegers.jl](https://github.com/JeffreySarnoff/SaferIntegers.jl), if you want checked arithmetic with integers. You can also use functions in `Base.Checked` directly, like `Base.Checked.checked_add`, for example.

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