Smallest float different from 0.0?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Paul McGuire wrote:

> On Sep 7, 9:47 am, kj <no.em... at please.post> wrote:
>> Is there some standardized way (e.g. some "official" module of such
>> limit constants) to get the smallest positive float that Python
>> will regard as distinct from 0.0?
>>
>> TIA!
>>
>> kj
> 
> You could find it for yourself:
> 
>>>> for i in range(400):
> ...    if 10**-i == 0:
> ...       print i
> ...       break
> ...
> 324


I think this is even a bit closer:

for i in xrange(10000):
    try:
        v = 1 / (2**-i)
    except ZeroDivisionError:
        print i, v
        break

-> 1075

If you test the inverse (10 ** 324 and 2 ** 1075) you see that the binary
variant is 4.something * 10 ** 323.

Diez