Any way to use BigInteger for an IntValue?

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Hi!
My question is in the title.
Basically I want to make an IntValue that can be bigger than 9223372036854775807.
Is there any way to do that? I tried using BigInteger but it seems to not work for IntValues, only for variables.

Here is what I tried

local Players = game:GetService("Players")
local bigInteger = require(game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("BigIntegerStandalone"))

Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(plr)
	local leaderstats = Instance.new("Folder")
	leaderstats.Name = "leaderstats"
	leaderstats.Parent = plr

	local IntValue1 = Instance.new("StringValue")
	IntValue1.Value = bigInteger.new(9999999999999999999999999999999) --0
	IntValue1.Name = "Cash"
	IntValue1.Parent = leaderstats
end)
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I suggest using string values; and changing it to the following:
if it’s 1 000 it becomes 1k
if it’s 1 000 000 it becomes 1M
etc

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I have an abbreviation system already

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Someone told me to use NumberValues so I’m gonna try that.

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No, there is no way to do this. An IntValue stores a 64 bit integer, and the value of a bigint exceeds the capacity. Generally you can instantiate BigInt types with a string, so if you are simply trying to store it, store it in a StringValue and put it back into a BigInt when you need to operate on it.

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store the number value inside the script; not outside and or store it in DataStores.

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What would you say about NumberValues? Are they bad because it’s just an estimate?
Some people told me that when they tried setting their NumberValue to 0.3 it became 0.2999999999

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NumberValues are doubles. They aren’t an estimate per se, but there are things called floating point errors. This is caused by precision issues, take a look at this for more detail. To avoid this you could use string formatting and such.

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Alright, using StringValues should be easier than all that, then, I guess.

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Every time you would use a StringValue and you want to set it to a value you’d need to do,

StringValue.Value = tonumber(StringValue.Value) + 10
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use number values to store the number, but 10x smaller than it actually is, and just *10 and abbreviate it when it needs to be displayed

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I just used number values, seems to be working fine as this game is working with higher numbers, not decimals

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