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On 03.05.15 13:23, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Ada is not a solution to this problem, because this is really not a problem (unless shown at the level of requirements).

Nor is any programming language, I imagine: given any counting thing
of limited size in bits, counting will hit the limit.