1. Accuracy

I ran some calculator test and have found that
an atom is accurate to little more than 50 bits.

I also know that an atom doesn't have overflow because
it goes into scientific notation and starts rounding off the
numbers to be able to handle the size of the number.

My test is as follows

atom chk

chk = 1
for A = 1 to 54 do--Accurate
  chk = chk + chk
  ? A
  printf(1, " %.0f\n", chk)
end for

--   9007199254740992
-- + 9007199254740992
-- ------------------
--  18014398509481984
puts(1, " 18014398509481984\n")

--Lucius Lamar Hilley III
--  E-mail at luciuslhilleyiii at juno.com
--  I support transferring of files less than 64K.
--  I can Decode both UU and Base64 format.

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