[Maxima] bfloat question

Stavros Macrakis macrakis at alum.mit.edu
Wed Jan 3 12:08:15 CST 2007


On 1/3/07, Michel Van den Bergh <michel.vandenbergh at uhasselt.be> wrote:
> Does anybody know if a bfloat number can overflow or underflow?

No, it cannot.  The exponent is a Lisp bignum, so is limited only by
memory size.  The precision is also only limited by memory size (and
calculation time...).

             -s


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