At 06:01 PM 9/24/2007, Terry Carroll wrote: >On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Christopher Spears wrote: > > > How can I find the largest float and complex numbers? > >That's an interesting question.. > >I just tried this: > >x = 2.0 >while True: > x = x*2 > print x > if repr(x) == "1.#INF": break > >to just keep doubling X until Python began representing it as infinity. >My output: > >4.0 >8.0 >16.0 >32.0 >64.0 >128.0 > . . . >137438953472.0 >274877906944.0 >549755813888.0 >1.09951162778e+012 >2.19902325555e+012 >4.3980465111e+012 > . . . >2.24711641858e+307 >4.49423283716e+307 >8.98846567431e+307 >1.#INF > >So I'd say, the answer is somewhere between 8.98846567431e+307 and double >that.
I pinched it down some more (after dinner): >>> 1.79769313486e+308 * (1.000000000000001 ** 1160) 1.7976931348623151e+308 >>> 1.79769313486e+308 * (1.000000000000001 ** 1161) 1.#INF Dick Moores Win XP _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
