Re: Largest/smallest atom

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  • Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 02, 2008
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jemima said...
mattlewis said...

These are the largest and smallest magnitude atoms (and their float64 representations): 

    1.7976931348623157e+308 {255,255,255,255,255,255,239,127}

In eu 3.1, there is no way to get these short of something like a float64 conversion.

Thanks, I would have replied sooner but it would not let me log on. Above is the +ve one I was after, anyone know the -ve one? I have no problem using a conversion from a sequence of 8 bytes.

It's the same number, just negative (just the sign bit is different in the floating point representation): 

    -1.7976931348623157e+308 {255,255,255,255,255,255,239,255}

Matt

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