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diff --git a/lispref/strings.texi b/lispref/strings.texi index b80dc244ee0..f35f94b2bc4 100644 --- a/lispref/strings.texi +++ b/lispref/strings.texi @@ -536,7 +536,9 @@ This function returns the numeric value of the characters in 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. +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 |