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  • Many mainframe and mini BASICs used BCD math and encoded line numbers in decimal format. This you often see 9999 or 49999 or similar as the upper limit. Micros almost always used 16 bit ints for line numbers, even those that did use BCD math, like Atari. Commented Aug 26, 2022 at 12:14