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Ok this is more a mathematical type question but related to general programming as well

"A is a multiple precision n-bit integer represented in radix r"
What does this statement mean?
In particular, what does A being a multiple precision n-bit integer mean?
Please help.
Thank you

Here is the first of the over 5 million results I got from Googling "multiple precision n-bit integer". Wikipedia also has a nice entry here.

@Flash:
lol

By the way, do you know why I didn't get any email notification for answers to my questions in this stack overflow forum?