perl -e ' for $j (1000,1_000_000,1_000_000_000) { $i=$j**2; print "\n",$j,": \t",$i,"\t="; printf "%020llu", $i; }' 1000: 1000000 =00000000000001000000 1000000: 1000000000000 =00000000004294967295 1000000000: 1e+18 =00000000004294967295