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Finding largest integer
- To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-MC
 
- Subject: Finding largest integer
 
- From: KMP at MIT-MC (Kent M. Pitman)
 
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 80 22:30:00 GMT
 
- Cc: Dave.Touretzky at CMU-10A
 
- Original-date: 30 APR 1980 1830-EDT
 
My FORTRAN stuff would love to know this, too. Perhaps a (STATUS INFINITY)?
A (STATUS WORDSIZE) would probably help, but for languages like NIL that
won't use all the bits for representing the number, both are really needed.