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Re: Floating point problems

From: "Johannes G.D. Hausmann" <joe neuro uni-oldenburg de>
To: axp-list redhat com
Subject: Re: Floating point problems
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:24:54 +0000

> What's wrong with the following program?
> 
> main() {
>         double x = 1.0;
>         x *= 1e-310;
> }
> 

This is a denormal. From float.h:

   /* Minimum normalised double */
#undef DBL_MIN
#define DBL_MIN 2.2250738585072014e-308

cu,

Jo
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FB Physik -- AG Komplexe Systeme

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