From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A question on the range of floats in Emacs Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:57:55 -0500 Message-ID: <87wswxahe4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87sl7nzt23.fsf@gmail.com> <878x9e4vbr.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184770692 2560 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2007 14:58:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 14:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 18 16:58:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IBAyd-0004hm-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:58:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBAyc-0000cZ-Nz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBAyZ-0000cK-3g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IBAyX-0000c0-GK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IBAyX-0000bx-9Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from s4.cableone.net ([24.116.0.230]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IBAyW-0000xw-LI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (unverified [24.117.100.184]) by S4.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S4) with ESMTP id 115596101 for multiple; Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:57:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed\, 18 Jul 2007 06\:19\:53 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NotAscii: charset=us-ascii X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 8, First 105, in=43, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 24.117.100.184 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:75072 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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