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@@ -3321,10 +3321,10 @@ millions of watchers. =item C<double> must hold a time value in seconds with enough accuracy -The type C<double> is used to represent timestamps. It is required to have -at least 51 bits of mantissa, which is good enough for at least into the -year 4000. This requirement is fulfilled by implementations implementing -IEEE 754 (basically all existing ones). +The type C<double> is used to represent timestamps. It is required to +have at least 51 bits of mantissa (and 9 bits of exponent), which is good +enough for at least into the year 4000. This requirement is fulfilled by +implementations implementing IEEE 754 (basically all existing ones). =back |