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Type BIGNUM 
Supertypes:
 
bignum, integer, rational,  real,  number, t 
Description:
 
 The type bignum is defined to be exactly (and integer (not fixnum)).  
The following X3J13 cleanup issues, not part of the specification, apply to this section:
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