<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Maria Liukis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:liukis@usc.edu">liukis@usc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Hello everybody,<div><br></div><div>Is somebody aware of built-in Python's function that would return a value for smallest positive double precision floating point number (analogous to 'realmin' in Matlab). Python has built-in sys.maxint but I could not find anything for float.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I'm not sure if this helps, but here you go:<br><a href="http://drj11.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/the-smallest-number/">http://drj11.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/the-smallest-number/</a><br><br>I couldn't get it to work on Python 2.6.2 or 3.1 myself, however it seems pretty small.<br>
<br>- Xav<br></div></div><br>