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It's 52 bits, not 56. Double-precision floating-point format #pedantry
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Re^4: Perl can't make some easy arithmetics :(
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 29, 2014 at 13:32 UTC
    For a total precision of 53 bits because of the implied leading 1.
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