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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Many do. Matlab, Julia and Smalltalk are the ones I know

[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 7 points 4 days ago

... Perl, Haskell, Lisp, ...

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Factor, Prolog, and Python has the fractions module

[–] gens@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Scheme and many others. And lots of libraries for C and others.

It's called bignum, or Arbitrary-precision arithmetic.