[Haskell-cafe] smallest double eps

Thomas Davie tom.davie at gmail.com
Sat Sep 30 12:24:19 EDT 2006


On 30 Sep 2006, at 17:19, Brian Hulley wrote:

> Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> Hang on, hang on, now I'm getting confused.
>> First you asked for the smallest (positive) x such that
>>    1+x /= x
>> which is around x=4.5e15.
>
> 1 + 0 /= 0
>
> 0 is smaller than 4.5e15
>
> So I don't understand this at all...

But then 0 isn't positive.

Bob


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