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$MaxMachineNumber

Usage

• $MaxMachineNumber is the largest machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.


Notes

• Numbers larger than $MaxMachineNumber are always represented in arbitrary-precision form.
• $MaxMachineNumber is typically , where is the maximum exponent that can be used in the internal representation of machine-precision numbers.
• See Section 3.1.6.
• See also: $MinMachineNumber, $MachineEpsilon, $MachinePrecision.
• Related package: NumericalMath`ComputerArithmetic`.
• New in Version 2.


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