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$MachineEpsilon

Usage

$MachineEpsilon gives the smallest machine-precision number which can be added to 1.0 to give a result that is distinguishable from 1.0.


Notes

$MachineEpsilon is typically  , where  is the number of binary bits used in the internal representation of machine-precision floating-point numbers.
$MachineEpsilon measures the granularity of machine-precision numbers.
• See Section 3.1.6.
• Related package: NumericalMath`ComputerArithmetic`.
• New in Version 2.


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