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$MachineEpsilon

$MachineEpsilon
gives the smallest machine-precision number which can be added to 1.0 to give a result that is distinguishable from 1.0.
  • $MachineEpsilon is typically 2-n+1, where n is the number of binary bits used in the internal representation of machine-precision floating-point numbers.
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