[SciPy-user] Origin of limits

[Fernando Perez]

Nils Wagner wrote:

> IIRC, double_epsilon is the smallest representable number by a double  
> (64bit IEEE 754 floating point).  Python floats are of this type. 
>  
> -bob 
>  
> Are you aware of any reference (Journal, book, whatever) ?  
> I need some more background information. 

google('IEEE 754 floating point')["I'm feeling lucky"]

Tons of references to books, articles, and the original IEEE standard itself.

Please, let's keep the questions on this list to a level of things which are 
at least above google's first hit.

Cheers,

f