Problem 355. Back to basics 11 - Max Integer

Created by Alan Chalker

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hubert andre on 13 Apr 2016

the largest int64 integer is 2048 times larger than the largest double integer

Thorsten Bartel on 7 May 2017

The kind of problem where the test suite just gives away the answer.

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Mattias on 7 Jan 2015

Does anyone know why this wouldn't work?

John D'Errico on 13 Oct 2016

A very good reason why it would NOT work. You returned a double precision number. But a double can only store integers correctly as large as 2^53-1.

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