Re: largest number possible?

[Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@...>]

You have to specify what you mean exactly.

The largest value representation is exactly "infinite" which is a particular float/double state. So there you have the largest number!

You get by local inf = 1/0;

Then you got the largest value that is not infinite, is what Luiz has posted,

Then you got the largest integer stored in double so that +1 does not induce rounding errors, which is 2^53.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> wrote:

hello,

i wrote the following snippet (my first attempt at lua code);
-- power generator begin
function power(n)
  local x = 2
  for i = 2, n do
    x = x * 2
  end
  return x
end

print(power(1024))
-- power generator end

i ran it with 'lua52 square.lua' which gave me an output of "inf".

is there any way to find out the largest number lua can handle?

thanks,

~mayuresh