I had an idea and wanted to see what would happen, I wanted to see how high roblox can go with numbers by script.
after doing this:
print(1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000)
it prints:
1e+36
how big is this number and what does 1e mean?
and is there a number limit to how high I can make my script count?
The 1 in the ‘1e’ is the first digit and the 36 is how many digits or zeros after it
so if i were to print
print(2000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000 * 1000)
it would print 2e+36
1e is a way to show big numbers with a few characters. The e means exponent.
1e means 10^.
whatever number after is what goes after the ^.
so 1e+36 is 10^36.
EDIT: typo @sjr04 lmk lol
that’s a smart way to not overfill the output, I wonder how high I can make it go.
1e36 is the same as 1 * 10^36
I think 64 bit number is the highest but roblox will take one bit away for negative integers, so the highest is 2 ^ 63 which is 9.223372e+18
As Lua 5.1 number is actually a double, the highest number you can store without makining it infinity is approximately 2 ^ 1024 or 1.7976931348623157e+308, though the maximum safe integer a double can store is 2 ^ 53 or 9 007 199 254 740 992.
That’s for long long int (or int64), not double, as all numbers in Lua 5.1 are double. Also there’s bignum/bigint that can bypass this.
The limit that you can print in the output would be 1e+308, as anything higher (i.e 1e+309) will print give you “inf”.
Oh ok, 30 chars 30 chars 30 chars