st: numlist maximum capacity

["Euler P. G. de Mello" <euler@cedeplar.ufmg.br>]

Dear Statalisters,
I am trying to loop over 1870 cases using the -foreach- function, e.g.:

. foreach n of numlist 1/1870{ display(`n')}
invalid numlist has too many elements
r(123);

Does anybody know what's the maximum number of elements of a -numlist-?
Thanks beforehand for the attention,
Euler P.G de Mello
[stata 7.0, win 98]

Ps.:
I have already managed to circunvene this situation by using 
something like:

local step=0
foreach n of numlist 1/2 {
        foreach m of numlist 1/5 {
                display(5*`step'+`m')
                }
        local step=`step'+1
  
}


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