Largecount
Largecount is a term used in computing to describe counting mechanisms capable of maintaining very large totals. It is not tied to a single standard, but in practice refers to counters that exceed 32-bit ranges and are implemented with 64-bit integers or arbitrary-precision arithmetic.
Common implementations allocate counters as 64-bit unsigned integers in languages like C and C++, or use arbitrary-precision
Within databases and analytics platforms, largecounts appear when tallying events in massive datasets, such as user
Largecount concepts underpin many applications in web analytics, monitoring, and scientific computing, where precise counts are
See also: integer overflow, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, 64-bit integer, big data, counting algorithm.