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Re^2: Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?

by BrowserUk (Patriarch)
on Jun 15, 2016 at 19:06 UTC ( [id://1165779]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?
in thread Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?

'1.9041105342991877e+258' is a floating point value to a mathematician, but to perl it is a string.

Sorry, but that is a red-herring:

printf "% 25.17g\n", 1.9041105342991877e+258;;
  1.9041105342991886e+258

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