On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:20:16AM +0000, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > 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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
