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Re: "Numeric overflow"?

Subject: Re: "Numeric overflow"?
From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:02:55 +0200


set eps to 1
repeat while true
	try
		set eps to eps/2
		1/eps
	on error
		log(eps)
		exit
	end
end

--> 5.562684646268e-309

Small enough  :p ?

++ JB

Le 13 sept. 05, à 18:31, Emmanuel a écrit :

At 7:54 AM -0700 9/13/05, Jon Pugh wrote:
At 4:19 PM +0100 9/12/05, Mr Tea wrote:
Is your client juggling unfeasibly large numbers?
More likely, is he dividing by unreasonably small numbers?
Pardon my stubbornness, Jon, but do you have an example of an unreasonably small number, Jon?

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