Biggest float number?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:58:32 -0500, "C. S. Xu" <xu.20 at nd.edu> wrote:

> It seems the biggest floating number in Python can be:
>     2.**1024 - 1.
> which is about 1.8E308. Is there any way to get bigger value than this,
> just like long intergers almost have no limits?

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you can try my Rational numbers module at http://moshez.org/Rational.py.
It's for rationals, not floats, but it does support non-integers to
unbounded precision and size.
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