Re: Largest/smallest atom
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 17, 2008
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jemima said...
While I know they are about +/- 1e308, is there some way to specify the largest/smallest atom such as float64_to_atom(#FF,#FF,...})??
These are the largest and smallest magnitude atoms (and their float64 representations):
1.7976931348623157e+308 {255,255,255,255,255,255,239,127} 4.9406564584124654e-324 {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
In eu 3.1, there is no way to get these short of something like a float64 conversion. In 4.0 you can to enter them in scientific notation and get full accuracy. The standard floating point scanner loses accuracy after a few digits (I don't recall exactly where).
You can look at scientific.e, which is part of euphoria for 4.0, for more info.
Matt
