What is the maximum value of a number in Lua?

Question

There doesn\'t seem to be a clear answer to this in the documentation.

I\'m interested in incrementing a variable time that counts the seconds since the

Answer 1

Using Lua5.1 or Lua5.2

Maximum formatted number:

179769313486231570814527423731704356798070567525844996598917476803157260780028538760589558632766878171540458953514382464234321326889464182768467546703537516986049910576551282076245490090389328944075868508455133942304583236903222948165808559332123348274797826204144723168738177180919299881250404026184124858368

If you change the 68 to 69 at the end it still only shows 68. A number larger than the number above returns math.huge aka inf.

Which is equal to: 1.8x10^308 or just south of 2^1024.

Try it yourself:

print(string.format("%.0f",number))