the floatPrecision = 0 -- forces floats to be printed without fractional digits

put float(the maxInteger)+1
-- 2147483648

-- max. whole value that can be stored as 8-byte-float precisely
maxFloat = power(2,53) -- 9007199254740992.0

i = 1.0
repeat while i<=maxFloat
  put i
  i = i+1
end repeat
-- 1
-- 2
-- 3
-- ...