Biggest float number?
Pearu Peterson
pearu at cens.ioc.ee
Tue Mar 27 01:09:04 EST 2001
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, C. S. Xu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems the biggest floating number in Python can be:
> 2.**1024 - 1.
> which is about 1.8E308. Is there any way to get bigger value than this,
> just like long intergers almost have no limits?
Try GMPY
http://gmpy.sourceforge.net/
For example,
>>> from gmpy import mpf
>>> mpf('1e2000000000')
mpf('1.e2000000000')
>>> mpf('1.1e200000000')+mpf('3.1e200000000')
mpf('4.2e200000000')
Regards,
Pearu
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