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> Is it specified anywhere what, exactly, the '*n' format is supposed to
> read?

The same as fscanf with %lf. See the source:
	http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/liolib.c.html#read_number
	http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/luaconf.h.html#LUA_NUMBER_SCAN

called from
	http://www.lua.org/source/5.2/liolib.c.html#g_read