Out of curiosity, I tried out one of Randal's recent JAPH's:

which resulted in the following diagnostic:

("line 5" is the line containing the JAPH)
Further 'testing' revealed that:

gave the same error, but:

works.  Seems to have something to do with the number of digits in

Heng Kek
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