From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-11-15T05:24:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Is 2.0 Integer or Float?

On Nov 14, 2006, at 2:21 PM, Wilson Bilkovich wrote:

> IEEE floating point can store an exact representation of any integer
> that the fp number is large enough to contain.
> I've never used it this way, but supposedly that is used to handle
> 53-bit ints on platforms that have 64-bit floats and only 32-bit ints.
>
> That may or may not be what the OP is trying to do.

I'm pretty sure Lua uses floats for everything, for exactly this reason.

James Edward Gray II