Interesting fact #123423

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Question from a customer on an internal mailing list this, succintly answered by RTF Template God, Hok-Min

Q: Whats the upper limit for a sum calculation in terms of the largest number BIP can handle?

A: Internally, XSL-T processor uses double precession. Therefore the upper limit and precision will be same as double (IEEE 754 double-precision binary floating-point format, binary64). Approximately 16 significant decimal digits, max is 1.7976931348623157 x 10³⁰⁸ .

So, now you know :)

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