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Re: EDS Autonumber

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> Dec 05, 2005
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> Atoms are *not* stored as 32-bit long integers.
> Someone else said the same thing recently,
> so I'd better clarify. Atoms are stored (when necessary) as 64-bit
> floating-point values. If you are only interested in storing
> integer values in an atom, you can have integers up to
> about 15 decimal digits (52-bits) without losing any precision.

Ok, so 52-bits would be approximately 4,503,599,627,370,495 records.
There are 31,536,000,000 milliseconds in a year. In order to use all
the available record numbers, you'd have to be inserting a new record
every millisecond for 142,808.2 years! I don't think we have to worry
about using up all our available record numbers. Also, keep in mind
these numbers are per table.

~Greg