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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
$MaxMachineNumber
$MaxMachineNumber
is the largest machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.
Details
- Numbers larger than $MaxMachineNumber are always represented in arbitrary-precision form.
- $MaxMachineNumber is typically
, where n is the maximum exponent that can be used in the internal representation of machine-precision numbers.
Examplesopen all
Basic Examples (1)
The largest hardware floating point number:
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