SIMPOL Documentation

The SIMPOL integer data type is capable of containing the whole number values, both positive and negative plus zero, in an extremely large range. The maximum size of an integer is essentially unlimited, but is still somewhat operating system dependent. On virtually all operating systems it will support values up to 10 to the 150,000, and on 32-bit or greater operating systems will support values to 10 to the 4 billion or so. As can be seen, there is very little likelyhood that an integer will ever be larger than can be stored in SIMPOL. What is possible, however, is that an integer might be too large to be stored on a small device that has very little memory.