smallest float number

Erik Max Francis max at alcyone.com
Wed Feb 12 21:10:22 EST 2003


Jp Calderone wrote:

> ieee754 defines the largest negative single precision floating point
> value
> to be -1.70141173e+38 and the largest negative double precision
> floating
> point value to be -1.7976931348623157e+308.

For interesting values of _largest_ :-).

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