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Author Dennis Sweeney
Recipients David.Duffy, Dennis Sweeney
Date 2021-07-28.01:21:40
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This is a good idea for languages where integers are bounded, but in Python, integers can be as large as you want, so there's no reason to worry about overflow:

>>> lo = 1 * 10**100
>>> hi = 2 * 10**100
>>> (lo + hi) // 2
15000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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2021-07-28 01:21:40Dennis Sweeneysetrecipients: + Dennis Sweeney, David.Duffy
2021-07-28 01:21:40Dennis Sweeneysetmessageid: <1627435300.61.0.49526751978.issue44755@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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