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(String Conversion) <string-to-number>: Document that a float is returned for integers that are too large.

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This function returns the numeric value of the characters in
@var{string}.  If @var{base} is non-@code{nil}, integers are converted
in that base.  If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used.
Floating point conversion always uses base ten; we have not implemented
other radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much
more work and does not seem useful.

The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then
reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number.  (On some
systems it ignores other whitespace at the beginning, not just spaces
and tabs.)  If the first character after the ignored whitespace is

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This function returns the numeric value of the characters in
@var{string}.  If @var{base} is non-@code{nil}, integers are converted
in that base.  If @var{base} is @code{nil}, then base ten is used.
Floating point conversion always uses base ten; we have not implemented
other radices for floating point numbers, because that would be much
more work and does not seem useful.  If @var{string} looks like an
integer but its value is too large to fit into a Lisp integer,
@code{string-to-number} returns a floating point result.

The parsing skips spaces and tabs at the beginning of @var{string}, then
reads as much of @var{string} as it can interpret as a number.  (On some
systems it ignores other whitespace at the beginning, not just spaces
and tabs.)  If the first character after the ignored whitespace is