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There are ints in Lua 5.3, and ffi ints in luajit. But generally, its simpler, why should people care about representations. Lua also let you compike as int on

There are ints in Lua 5.3, and ffi ints in luajit. But generally, its simpler, why should people care about representations. Lua also let you compike as int only I think.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
> why should people care about representations Because ints are exact, while floats introduce errors with nearly every operation. Representations are important in programming - different ones have different consequences.