is no practical limit for the exponent or number of decimal digits for these
numbers. (But realize that what we are discussing the rules for just the
I<storage> of these numbers. The fact that you can store such "large" numbers
-does not mean that that the I<operations> over these numbers will use all
+does not mean that the I<operations> over these numbers will use all
of the significant digits.
See L<"Numeric operators and numeric conversions"> for details.)
These conversions are governed by the following general rules:
-=over
+=over 4
=item *
architecture. C<sprintf "%u", -1> therefore provides the same result as
C<sprintf "%u", ~0>.
-=over
+=over 4
=item Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>