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Address remaining logic that can overflow

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
data

Research direction

Review the TODOs introduced in #34 and search the repository for occurrences of " + " to identify the remaining overflow-prone logic. Done means the relevant overflow cases have been addressed across the identified locations and verified with the repository's existing checks.

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Description

Several TODOs were added in #34 pointing out places that can overflow. There may be more; that was simply what I found by searching for " + ".

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Rust
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