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Re: A question on the range of floats in Emacs


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: A question on the range of floats in Emacs
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:57:55 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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




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