July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1300 pages
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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 ...