FIX: buffer overflow in integer when setting to 1e10 and enhance documentation #267
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@cpinter It caused the value to be randomly cut to int (MAX_INT<1e10) (undefined behavior, platform dependent).
Convert underlying data type to long to avoid this truncation. Cast also multiplication to long, since int ^ 2 can easily surpass the limits of int.