ANSI Common Lisp
12 Numbers
12.1 Number Concepts
12.1.3 Rational Computations
12.1.3.1 Rule of Unbounded Rational Precision
Rational computations cannot overflow in the usual sense (though there may not be enough storage to represent a result), since
integers
and
ratios
may in principle be of any magnitude.
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