Can doubles be used to represent a 64 bit number without loss of precision

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Published on 2009-11-24T11:16:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 6:23 UTC
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I want to use lua (that internally uses only doubles) to represent a integer that can't have rounding errors between 0 and 2^64-1 or terrible things will happen.

Is it possible to do so?

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