From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-02-10T23:14:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Equivalent to Java's Float.MAX_VALUE?

Hi,

At Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:37:47 +0900,
Farrel Lifson wrote:
> 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.

Float::MIN and Float::MAX have been added in 1.8.

At Mon, 10 Feb 2003 22:54:06 +0900,
Robert Klemme wrote:
> Since floats do grow arbitrarily there is no other bound as system memory.

That's Bignum.

-- 
Nobu Nakada