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Article #1520Re: What is permissable with HUGE_VAL
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 18:28
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 1990 18:28
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In article <1990Jul19.204933.18891@watmath.waterloo.edu> rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes: >i.e. there is no reason (other than the obvious sillyness) that >an implementation can't define HUGE_VAL as 5.2. Yes, HUGE_VAL is not required to be the largest representable value. However, it should be defined as close to that as is feasible, simply as a matter of quality of implementation.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!jarthur!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!ncifcrf!lhc!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: What is permissable with HUGE_VAL Message-ID: <13387@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 23 Jul 90 18:28:39 GMT References: <1990Jul14.194550.14850@dinorah.wustl.edu> <1990Jul19.204933.18891@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 7