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- Subject: Re: More thoughts on Lua 5.2
- From: "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:03:51 +0200
52-bit integers represent a _very_ big file ;)
steve d.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > Also, 64 bit file offsets can't be expressed inside a standard Lua
> > number (which only have 32 bits of integer precision).
>
> IEEE doubles can store 52 bits of integer precision (but it does not
> help in this case).
>
