10.6. Whole Number Limits
Whole numbers are restricted to the platform internal whole number limit,
which is 9 digits on 32-bit systems, and 18 digits on 64-bit systems, when used
as length, index, count, or size arguments to built-in
functions or object methods,
as the right-hand operand of the power (
**) operator,
as the values of
exprr and
exprf in a DO or LOOP instruction,
as values for the NUMERIC DIGITS or NUMERIC FUZZ keyword instruction,
positional patterns for the PARSE keyword instruction, or
as input for interactive TRACE debugging.
