[SciPy-user] Origin of limits

[Bob Ippolito]

On Monday, Oct 6, 2003, at 15:00 America/New_York, Nils Wagner wrote:

> I am interested in the origin of
>>>> limits.double_epsilon
> 2.22044604925e-16
>
> Please can someone explain this value.

IIRC, double_epsilon is the smallest representable number by a double 
(64bit IEEE 754 floating point).  Python floats are of this type.

-bob