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I can see it... but then again I'm an optimist..:yh:As rep points is naturally a larger number then we'll have to start by estimating that maximum instead of rep power; as I believe that both integers will have the same max value. We are seeing 5,000,000+ points now. And as everything is usually in binary quantities then (2^15)-1 is ruled out as that would only give 32,767 points. The next is 32 bit: (2^31)-1 with a max of 2,147,483,647 points. If this is the max, then we would have to assume that 21,474,836 is highest rep power someone can have.
Now if we on the off-chance happen to have 64 bit integers, then (2^63)-1 would see a value of 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 points and a max rep power of ... 92,233,720,368,547,758!
I'm going to put my bet on 32 bit.
But the chances of any of us reaching the limit is incredibly low, as I can't seriously see the mods letting us post with 21,000,000 rep power now can you?
Jerry