From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-02-10T22:54:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent to Java's Float.MAX_VALUE?

Float INFINITY = 1.0 / 0.0

Since floats do grow arbitrarily there is no other bound as system memory.

    robert

"Farrel Lifson" <flifson@cs.uct.ac.za> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1044884446.23956.4.camel@asgard.cs.uct.ac.za...
> Hi all,
>
> Does Ruby have an equivalent to Java's Float.MIN_VALUE and
> Float.MAX_VALUE (the smallest and largest finite numbers representable
> respectively)? The pickaxe book doesn't mention anything as such but
> perhaps it has been added in newer Ruby versions.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Farrel Lifson
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