Biggest float number?

Joshua Marshall jmarshal at mathworks.com
Mon Mar 26 17:19:22 EST 2001


C. S. Xu <xu.20 at nd.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,

> 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?

One possible workaround is to use a pair of long ints as numerator and
denominator of a rational number.



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