You are mistaken. We were talking about the maximum value that can be used in a range, and it's not even close to 2**50.
(By the way, the largest positive integer that can be stored without loss of precision in a double-precision float is 2**53.)
I was wrong too, though. I thought it was the largest native unsigned integer, but it's the largest native signed integer.
$ perl -e'1 for 2147483647..2147483647'
$ perl -e'1 for 2147483647..2147483648'
Range iterator outside integer range at -e line 1.
That limit be obtained using the following:
use constant MAX_RANGE => (~0)>>1;
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