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in thread Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?

Very true. But since perl is using double precision on my machine, you will never get that number. You would need quad precision to represent 1.9041105342991887e+258.

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Re^6: Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2016 at 21:52 UTC

    Ignore this. I'm seeing things.


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