Problem 355. Back to basics 11 - Max Integer

Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody.

Return the largest positive integer MATLAB can handle.

Solve

Last solution submitted on Aug 22, 2019

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.

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.