Arbitrarylength
Arbitrarylength is a property of data types and representations whose size is not fixed by the language or hardware. In such systems, the length, precision, or capacity can grow as needed, constrained only by available memory. This contrasts with fixed-length types such as 32-bit integers or fixed-size buffers.
In numerical computing, arbitrary-length integers (often called big integers or bignums) support numbers with unbounded precision.
In text and data structures, strings, lists, and arrays may be of arbitrary length, growing as elements
Applications include cryptography with large primes, numerical simulations requiring high precision, and processing of streaming or
Performance considerations are central: operations on arbitrary-length values are generally slower and more memory-intensive than fixed-size
See also: Big integer, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, bignum library, dynamic array.