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Marika Taylor currently receives funding from EPSRC, STFC, UK government deparments and the European Horizon programme. In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the ...

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when you pass a very large number (larger than max long, but smaller than max UInt64) as a string in a simple insert, the client attempts to convert this value into a long using Long.parseLong, which ...

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