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<MARTIMM> Wondering what the highest number is below Inf and lowest above -Inf <masak> MARTIMM: for the Num type, there's a highest representable number below Inf <masak> m: say 1e308 <camelia> rakudo-moar 1c425f: OUTPUT«1e+308» <masak> this is the largest Num below Inf I can get Rakudo to represent. <geekosaur> 1.7976931348623157081e+308 on x86_64 <geekosaur> (and probably x86) <masak> I expected it to be something like that, but the cutoff in Rakudo was at exactly 1.000e308 <masak> maybe some artificial limit has been put in somewhere for safety reasons <masak> m: say 1.7976931348623157081e200 * 1e108 <camelia> rakudo-moar 1c425f: OUTPUT«1.79769313486232e+308» <masak> a-ha :) <masak> so Rakudo can represent them, just not with scientific-notation number literals <masak> I... would be tempted to call that a bug. * masak submits rakudobug
