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In modern JavaScript, there are two types of numbers:
1. Regular numbers in JavaScript are stored in 64-bit format [IEEE-754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision), also known as "double precision floating point numbers". These are numbers that we're using most of the time, and we'll talk about them in this chapter.
1. Regular numbers in JavaScript are stored in 64-bit format [IEEE-754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754), also known as "double precision floating point numbers". These are numbers that we're using most of the time, and we'll talk about them in this chapter.
2. BigInt numbers represent integers of arbitrary length. They are sometimes needed because a regular number can't safely exceed <code>2<sup>53</sup></code> or be less than <code>-2<sup>53</sup></code>. As bigints are used in few special areas, we devote them a special chapter <info:bigint>.
2. BigInt numbers represent integers of arbitrary length. They are sometimes needed because a regular integer number can't safely exceed <code>(2<sup>53</sup>-1)</code> or be less than <code>-(2<sup>53</sup>-1)</code>, as we mentioned earlier in the chapter <info:types>. As bigints are used in few special areas, we devote them a special chapter <info:bigint>.
So here we'll talk about regular numbers. Let's expand our knowledge of them.
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## Imprecise calculations
Internally, a number is represented in 64-bit format [IEEE-754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision), so there are exactly 64 bits to store a number: 52 of them are used to store the digits, 11 of them store the position of the decimal point (they are zero for integer numbers), and 1 bit is for the sign.
Internally, a number is represented in 64-bit format [IEEE-754](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008_revision), so there are exactly 64 bits to store a number: 52 of them are used to store the digits, 11 of them store the position of the decimal point, and 1 bit is for the sign.
If a number is really huge, it may overflow the 64-bit storage and become a special numeric value `Infinity`: