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numbers. Stan roughly<a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a>
follows the IEEE 754 standard for floating-point computation.
The range of a 64-bit number is roughly <span class="math inline">\(\pm 2^{1022}\)</span>, which is
slightly larger than <span class="math inline">\(\pm 10^{307}\)</span>. It is a good idea to stay well
away from such extreme values in Stan models as they are prone to
cause overflow.</p>
<p>64-bit floating point representations have roughly 15 decimal digits
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