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Simon Slavin wrote:
> Integers in all languages I'm aware of are not stored as mantissa/exponent, 
> they're stored as bits with complete precision.  

There is one huge exception I found out the hard way recently: Javascript
stores all 'integers' as floating point and so Javascript integers lose
precision.  For example if you try to use 9223372036854775807 in Javascript
it will keep coming back as 9223372036854776000.

Roger
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