From @zoffixznet

Ranges with large Num end points still let .int-bounds to succeed, because
the .floor == $_ (or .Int == $_) check checks out. The real Int number, however, has noise in it​:

  <Zoffix_> m​: say (1e100..1e200).int-bounds
  <camelia> rakudo-moar c76d93​: OUTPUT​: «(10000000000000000159028911097599180468360808563945281389781327557747838772170381060813469985856815104 9999999999999999697331222125103616594745032754550236264824175095034684843555407553419633840470625186802751241597388240818213573436827848463938504104723…»

This creates problems such as naive code like this successfully returns a sum. It's a very noisy sum and isn't what a user[^1] expected​:

  <Zoffix_> m​: say [+] 1..1e100
  <camelia> rakudo-moar c76d93​: OUTPUT​: «50000000000000001590289110975991817328705368083504703036502630629001320386155388099280879870478387696492219464257418736194801727938851902336988862645587616123664360879667548673664253072454494149672960␤»

I dunno, is the floating point noise something the user should be familiar with or should we somehow go extra length to prevent such cases and error out or something?

[1] https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-07-07#i_14841814

From 1parrota@gmail.com

Isn't there a point at which there's no obvious practical application
for extreme numbers? It's all very well letting mathematicians romp
around unconstrained, but is it worth complicating the language or its
development for the rest of us?

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From @zoffixznet

On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 16​:38​:13 -0700, 1parrota@​gmail.com wrote​:

Isn't there a point at which there's no obvious practical application
for extreme numbers? It's all very well letting mathematicians romp
around unconstrained, but is it worth complicating the language or its
development for the rest of us?

Yeah, after thinking more about it, it's just not worth it trying rake all the values and figure out whether user really meant to get any f.p. noise in the numbers. Rejecting, same as https://rt-archive.perl.org/perl6/Ticket/Display.html?id=131717#txn-1472555

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