Looking for the greatest negative float value

[Erik Max Francis]

"Mike C. Fletcher" wrote:

> Uh, that's a really-really small number that's vanishingly larger than
> 0.0, negative exponents make fractions, not large negative numbers...

Well, the original poster _did_ ask for the "greatest negative float
value."  That would be -epsilon.

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