[seanwitte]

I don't remember for sure, but most languages I've used allocate 4 bytes for a long integer. Thats a range of -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 for a signed int or 0 - 4,294,967,295 for an unsigned int. You wanted to use an 8-byte number, which is a float data type that has an signed length of about 28 digits.

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Thanks, I was thinking of the IFI controller fixed processor loop, even got it wrong. The stamp runs at 20MHz, 4000 instructions per second. To increment a number from 0 to 4,000,000,000 would take at least:

(1 second/4000 instructions) * 4,000,000,000 instructions =
1,000,000 seconds =
17,000 minutes =
283 hours =
12 days

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