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# Not a function
This is NOT a function, it's a variable that effectively represents infinity, in the sense that in any numerical comparison every number will be less than this.
For example, if x is a number, "x > math.huge" will NEVER be true except in the case of overflow (see below).
Lua will consider any number greater than or equal to 2<sup>1024</sup> (the exponent limit of a [double](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format)) as `inf` and hence equal to this.
For example, if x is a number, `x > math.huge` will NEVER be true except in the case of overflow (see below).
Lua will consider any number greater than or equal to 2^1024 (the exponent limit of a [double](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format)) as `inf` and hence equal to this.