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maxInteger
Syntax
the maxInteger
Description
System property; returns the largest whole number that is supported by the system. On most personal computers, this is 2,147,483,647 (2 to the thirty-first power, minus 1).
This property can be useful for initializing boundary variables before a loop or for limit testing.
To use numbers larger than the range of addressable integers, use floating-point numbers instead. They aren't processed as quickly as integers, but they support a greater range of values.
Example
This statement generates a table, in the Message window, of the maximum decimal value that can be represented by a certain number of binary digits:
on showMaxValues b = 31 v = the maxInteger repeat while v > 0 put b && "-" && v b = b-1 v = v/2 end repeat end
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