Christopher Spears wrote: > One of the exercises from Core Python Programmng (2nd > Edition) asks me to determine the largest and smallest > integers, float, and complex numbers my system can > handle. Using python.org and Google, I have > discovered my system's largest and smallest ingtegers: > >>>> import sys >>>> sys.maxint > 2147483647 >>>> -sys.maxint - 1 > -2147483648 > > How can I find the largest float and complex numbers?
There is an extensive discussion starting here: http://homepages.cwi.nl/%7Esteven/enquire.html It also points to float.h. On my computer that is at /usr/includes/float.h and includes among other things #define __FLT_MIN__ 1.17549435e-38F #define __FLT_MAX__ 3.40282347e+38F Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
