From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: A question on the range of floats in Emacs
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:57:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wswxahe4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uveciqtye.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 18 Jul 2007 06\:19\:53 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
...
> The numbers where you see the loss of precision are denormalized
> (i.e. some of the mantissa bits are zero). The range you are looking
> for (where there's no loss of precision) is between
> least-positive-normalized-float and most-positive-float.
Thanks!
Jay
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-17 2:02 A question on the range of floats in Emacs Jay Belanger
2007-07-17 14:49 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-07-17 20:41 ` Jay Belanger
2007-07-18 3:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-18 14:57 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
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