Integers

In some programming languages, integers and floating-point numbers are very different. In DScript, there is no difference at all. Even if you enter a number without any decimal component, the number is stored as a floating-point number and all arithmetic operations are performed as though the number is a floating point.

There is one exception to this rule. Bitwise operators, such as Bitwise And and Bitwise Or, convert numbers to 32-bit integers before performing their operations, then convert the results back to floating point numbers.

Since all integers are converted to floating point numbers, it is possible that trailing digits for very large numbers will get lost. DScript can exactly represent integers as large as ±9,007,199,254,740,992 (53-bit).