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Disparity between Smallest/Largest floats and Wikipedia page #30

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nchen24 opened this issue Oct 7, 2014 · 1 comment
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Disparity between Smallest/Largest floats and Wikipedia page #30

nchen24 opened this issue Oct 7, 2014 · 1 comment

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nchen24 commented Oct 7, 2014

On this page, the minimum and maximum values for floats are listed as being on the order of 10e-324 and 10e308, respectively, but the Wikipedia page (listed right above), cites the minimum being on the order of 10e-1074. I assume this is because until 10e-324 you have full digit precision, but I feel like this should be explained or at least mentioned.
brazzy added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 8, 2015
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Mention subnormals, see issue #30
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brazzy commented Feb 8, 2015

Sorry for taking so long to react; you're correct and I've added a mention of subnormal numbers to the page.

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