How Idle Games Handle Huge Numbers?

[pale plover]

Hello, does anyone know how, idle games handle huge numbers in their game?

Do they uses BigInteger all the time?
Or they use a technique called offset & bucket? (idk how it works)
Or they uses floating number?

[cursive pebble]

Yes they use libraries/types similar to BigInteger

Many use BreakInfinity

Which is a compromise

[pale plover]

wow great! but, are they kinda slower? or they are still ok to use oftenly?

[whole trout]

There is also the possibility to use exponent and removes non significative numbers.

You do not want to use floats number as those will be less precise the greater they are.

[gray viper]

They're slower, but you don't have that many numbers

[pale plover]

Thanks alot guys, really helped me. Just gained new insights 😃 👍

[gray viper]

I'm guessing "offset and bucket" is basically what goes on in a big integer library

breaking a number into several pieces

[cursive pebble]

They're slower than regular math sure but you've gotta do what you've gotta do.

[subtle bay]

is offset and bucket like treating a number as a*b+c (or a<<x|c)?
i see c# uses an uint array to store all the bits after the number is converted to binary(?)