OpenEuphoria

range of atoms

• Posted by jluethje at gmx.de Jun 03, 2002
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Hello all,

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refman2.htm, 2.1.1 Atoms and Sequences (Euphoria 2.3):
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"Atoms can have any integer or double-precision floating point value.
They can range from approximately -1e300 (minus one times 10 to the
power 300) to +1e300 with 15 decimal digits of accuracy."
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On my system, atoms apparently can range from approximately -1.7e308
to +1.7e308. That isn't a small difference (factor 170,000,000):

---------------------->8--
atom x

x = -1.7e308
? x
x = +1.7e308
? x
---------------------->8--

Regards,
   Juergen