Do forgive me if this is wrong but when I use io.read("*n") it reads only a single digit/character of the number in. And io.read() and io.read("*a") do not behave as I would expect, but the thing I am most sure of is when it comes to reading numbers. Please check my screenshot:
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Edit: this is with the 64-bit version installed on a Windows 10 machine.
