diff --git a/src/chebyshevtransform.jl b/src/chebyshevtransform.jl
index 5303868e..7920e6d0 100644
--- a/src/chebyshevtransform.jl
+++ b/src/chebyshevtransform.jl
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ ichebyshevutransform(x, dims...; kwds...) = plan_ichebyshevutransform(x, dims...
 ## Code generation for integer inputs
 
 for func in (:chebyshevtransform,:ichebyshevtransform,:chebyshevutransform,:ichebyshevutransform)
-    @eval $func(x::AbstractVector{T}, dims...; kwds...) where {T<:Integer} = $func(convert(AbstractVector{Float64},x), dims...; kwds...)
+    @eval $func(x::AbstractVector{T}, dims...; kwds...) where {T<:Integer} = $func(convert(AbstractVector{float(T)},x), dims...; kwds...)
 end
 
 
@@ -742,4 +742,4 @@ for pln in (:plan_chebyshevtransform!, :plan_chebyshevtransform,
         $pln(x::AbstractArray, dims...; kws...) = $pln(x, Val(1), dims...; kws...)
         $pln(::Type{T}, szs, dims...; kwds...) where T = $pln(Array{T}(undef, szs...), dims...; kwds...)
     end
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/test/chebyshevtests.jl b/test/chebyshevtests.jl
index 3112472d..614f9c6d 100644
--- a/test/chebyshevtests.jl
+++ b/test/chebyshevtests.jl
@@ -443,6 +443,10 @@ using FastTransforms, Test
         @test plan_chebyshevtransform!(x)copy(x) ≈ chebyshevtransform(x)
         @test plan_ichebyshevtransform!(x)copy(x) ≈ ichebyshevtransform(x)
     end
+    @testset "BigInt" begin
+        x = big(10)^400 .+ BigInt[1,2,3]
+        @test ichebyshevtransform(chebyshevtransform(x)) ≈ x
+    end
 
     @testset "immutable vectors" begin
         F = plan_chebyshevtransform([1.,2,3])