[Haskell-cafe] smallest double eps

[Brian Hulley]

Thomas Davie wrote:
> 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.

Why not?
In any case every positive number nust satisfy the above inequation so what 
about 0.1, which is certainly smaller than 4500000000000000?

Regards, Brian.
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