[javascript] Added note about ints

justinjhendrick · Oct 10, 2013 · c149c61 · c149c61
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 // 1. Numbers, Strings and Operators
 
 // Javascript has one number type (which is a 64-bit IEEE 754 double).
+// As with Lua, don't freak out about the lack of ints: doubles have a 52-bit
+// mantissa, which is enough to store integers up to about 9✕10¹⁵ precisely.
 3; // = 3
 1.5; // = 1.5