MATLAB: Intmax in 64 bits

64bitsintmax

Hi all, Why the answer is not 9223372036854775807 ?
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>> intmax
ans =
    2147483647

Best Answer

Because, as clearly written in the documentation, intmax with no arguments is the same as
intmax('int32')
If you want 9223372036854775807, then you need to write
intmax('int64')
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