---
title: BigInt
slug: Glossary/BigInt
tags:
  - BigInt
  - Glossary
  - JavaScript
  - Reference
  - arbitrary precision format
---
In {{Glossary("JavaScript")}}, **BigInt** is a numeric data type that can represent integers in the [arbitrary precision format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic). In other programming languages different numeric types can exist, for examples: Integers, Floats, Doubles, or Bignums.

## See also

- {{Interwiki("wikipedia", "Data type#Numeric_types", "Numeric types")}} on Wikipedia
- The JavaScript type: [`BigInt`](/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Data_structures#bigint_type)
- The JavaScript global object {{jsxref("BigInt")}}
