Alternative unions

[ioannaMitropoulou]

What type of change is this?

• [ ] Bug fix in a backwards-compatible manner.
• [X] New feature in a backwards-compatible manner.
• [ ] Breaking change: bug fix or new feature that involve incompatible API changes.
• [ ] Other (e.g. doc update, configuration, etc)

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[joburger]

looks good! just a small comment, before when I had to use a 'very big number' I used 2 ** 32, maybe for consistency should we just always use that when we need a very high number?