JavaScript variable to hold large numbers
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4288821/how-to-deal-with-big-numbers-in-javascript">How to deal with big numbers in javascript</a>  </p>
</blockquote>



<p>Javascript does't hold numbers > 17 digits. is there any other way to put bigger number into a variable? apart from parsing it into string?</p>

<p>example: </p>

<pre><code>var x = 12647586984746263548565656;
alert(x);
</code></pre>

<p>Try this out. it wont work since x is a large number.</p>
