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What is BigInt? Meaning for developers

A JavaScript type for whole numbers of any size, written with an n at the end: 10n. You need it when results go past 2^53, where normal numbers lose exact values.

Learn it properly · DSALesson 13: Basic Maths for DSADigits, divisors, primes, the sieve, GCD and LCM, and fast powers.

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