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 i work with 256 bit large integers all the time with my code and the number that they can count is more than the estimated number of atoms in the universe

almost everything in the physical universe has more state space, so, determinism in the sense of reproducability requires you to massively narrow down the possible states of a phenomena to funnel it through the one you want to recur, and it's not ever really a perfect repetition