[Haskell-cafe] smallest double eps

[Chad Scherrer]

Tamas,

You might want to read Joachim's post more carefully - he's trying to
help you, and I think he makes a good point.

-Chad

> > Am Freitag, den 29.09.2006, 19:30 -0400 schrieb Tamas K Papp:
> > > the smallest positive floating point number x such that 1+x /= x?
> > That would be the smallest positive number, woudn't it?
> >
> > Do you mean the smalles postive number x with 1+x /= 1?
>
> Hi Joachim,
>
> Specifically, I would be happy with the smallest Double that makes the
> statement true.  I need it as a convergence bound for an iterative
> algorithm.  Anyhow, thanks for the clarification, but I would be
> happier with an answer.
>
> Tamas
>
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