Looking for the greatest negative float value

Mike C. Fletcher mcfletch at rogers.com
Wed Jun 11 13:20:26 EDT 2003


The maximum negative float is probably somewhere close to:
    -1.79769313e+308

but it could be different on other platforms (I'm on a Win2K machine).

HTH,
Mike

Gilles Lenfant wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need the same as...
>
>import sys
>negmaxint = - sys.maxint -1
>
>... but for float data
>
>any hint ?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>--Gilles
>  
>
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