Looking for the greatest negative float value
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Wed Jun 11 19:28:24 EDT 2003
"Mike C. Fletcher" wrote:
> In my defense ;) , the original poster
> was
> giving the example of:
>
> -sys.maxint-1
>
> as the analog of the number they were seeking in integers, instead of
> -1
> :) .
Sorry, I forgot to include a smiley face. It was indeed clear that the
original poster was asking about the most negative negative floating
point value, I was just nitpicking a (quite common) bad choice of
mathematical terminology he chose to use.
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