It will overflow at System.out.println(new Date(Long.MAX_VALUE)); which prints Sun Aug 17 03:12:55 GMT-04:00 292278994 That’s thus after a bit more than 292 million years. I’d say, there’s a plenty of time to invent a solution in the meanwhile. To be honest, I don’t expect the humanhood to survive this. We exist only a few seconds … Read more
A trick that works is to position box #2 with position: absolute instead of position: relative. We usually put a position: relative on an outer box (here box #2) when we want an inner box (here box #3) with position: absolute to be positioned relative to the outer box. But remember: for box #3 to … Read more
Okay, I didn’t see the addendum to the question. Although I had previously said it wasn’t possible to do this using JavaScript and a font that isn’t fixed-width… it actually is possible! You can wrap each individual character in a <span>, and find the first <span> that is outside the bounds of the parent. Something … Read more
You can use the bigfloat package. It supports arbitrary precision floating point operations. http://packages.python.org/bigfloat/ import bigfloat bigfloat.exp(5000,bigfloat.precision(100)) # -> BigFloat.exact(‘2.9676283840236670689662968052896e+2171′, precision=100) Are you using a function optimization framework? They usually implement value boundaries (using penalty terms). Try that. Are the relevant values really that extreme? In optimization it’s not uncommon to minimize log(f). (approximate log … Read more
Ok if anyone else is having this problem this may be your answer: If you are trying to hide absolute positioned elements make sure the container of those absolute positioned elements is relatively positioned.
If you want the overflowing text in the div to automatically newline instead of being hidden or making a scrollbar, use the word-wrap: break-word property.
as you have a very specific example will something like this work for you? I did have to use a little jquery (you can do it with javascript). If you don’t have any other content that will be affected you could place a rtl on the HTML tag and keep your absolute position on the … Read more
It is because overflow: hidden, among other properties, introduces a new block formatting context. You can read about the effects in this great article: The magic of overflow: hidden UPDATE: I’ve rewritten your jsFiddle into something that is working (tested on Chrome). Instead of defining margin-left on the #red and #blue (which would act differently … Read more
I haven’t needed to use this often, but you can use the checked keyword: int x = foo(); int test = checked(x * common); Will result in a runtime exception if overflows. From MSDN: In a checked context, if an expression produces a value that is outside the range of the destination type, the result … Read more
If you need larger than 32-bits you could consider using 64-bit integers (long long), or use or write an arbitrary precision math library, e.g. GNU MP.