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$MaxMachineNumber
$MaxMachineNumber
is the largest machine-precision number that can be used on a particular computer system.
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Numbers larger than
$MaxMachineNumber
are always represented in arbitrary-precision form.
$MaxMachineNumber
is typically
2
n
, where
n
is the maximum exponent that can be used in the internal representation of machine-precision numbers.
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$MinMachineNumber
$MachineEpsilon
$MachinePrecision
$MaxNumber
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