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big integer for Range

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• Subject: [mg61239] big integer for Range
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:39:47 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Mathematica 5.2 under Windows XP on a 32-bit machine complains if I ask 
it to form Range[10^9].  The error is Range::range: Range specification 
in Range[10000000000] is not a machine-size integer.

Is there a built-in Mathematica function that tells what the machine's 
maximum machine-size integer is?  (And if not, shouldn't there be?)

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