Christopher D . Lewis wrote:
Someone posted a question as to the size of number which a scalar
would tolerate. When I wanted to know what size boundaries I faced in
certain variable types in C, I wrote a little program that added 1 to
a variable until n+1 was less than n, at which point I
You'll be waiting a long time. Perl quickly moves into scientific
notation and can handle arbitrarily large values. I wrote a similar
program a while back and got bored with it when the count hit about
10^17. :)
Christopher D. Lewis wrote:
Someone posted a question as to the size of number
Chris Said:
Someone posted a question as to the size of number which a
scalar would
tolerate.
I guess I missed this thread, so I hope I'm not repeating information. :)
Perl seems to
tolerate quite a bit of this, as the app has been churning away,
printing every so many number just to
Ben Siders wrote:
You'll be waiting a long time. Perl quickly moves into scientific
notation and can handle arbitrarily large values. I wrote a similar
program a while back and got bored with it when the count hit about
10^17. :)
if you don't want to wait but still want to try to push Perl
. Lewis
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Size of number in scalar
You'll be waiting a long time. Perl quickly moves into scientific
notation and can handle arbitrarily large values. I wrote a similar
program a while back and got bored with it when the count hit about
10^17
