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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed
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Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

by Alessandro Del Sole
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1300 pages
87h 27m
English
Sams
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Working with BigInteger

System.Numerics.BigInteger is a value type exposed by the System.Numerics namespace that requires a reference to the System.Numerics.dll assembly. It represents a signed, arbitrarily large integer number. This means it doesn’t have minimum and maximum values, unlike value types such as Integer and Long. Instantiating a BigInteger is easy, as you can see from the following line of code:

Dim sampleBigInteger As New System.Numerics.BigInteger

You can assign any signed number to a BigInteger because it has no minimum and maximum values, as demonstrated by the following code snippet:

'Neither minimum nor maximum valuessampleBigInteger = Byte.MinValuesampleBigInteger ...

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