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  • $MaxMachineNumber is the largest machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.
  • Numbers larger than $MaxMachineNumber are represented in arbitrary-precision form.
  • $MaxMachineNumber is typically , where is the maximum exponent that can be used in the internal representation of machine-precision numbers.
  • See the Mathematica book: Section 3.1.6.
  • See also: $MinMachineNumber, $MachineEpsilon, $MachinePrecision.
  • Related package: NumericalMath`ComputerArithmetic`.


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