[Mono-list] double trouble

[Dwivedi , Ajay Kumar]

1.79769313486232e308 is the rounded off value.
The exact value would be 256^128-1 which bc calulates as

17976931348623159077293051907890247336179769789423065727343008115773\
26758055009631327084773224075360211201138798713933576587897688144166\
22492847430639474124377767893424865485276302219601246094119453082952\
08500576883815068234246288147391311054082723716335051068458629823994\
7245938479716304835356329624224137215


Happy Hacking,
Ajay

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Doan [mailto:bdoan@sicompos.com]
Sent: 22 February 2002 20:08
To: mono-list@ximian.com
Subject: [Mono-list] double trouble


Last night I was starting another test case for System.Double when I
noticed something strange.

Double.MinValue & MaxValue are supposed to be (-) 1.79769313486232e308.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/
frlrfsystemdoubleclassmaxvaluetopic.asp

However, if I try to assign a double that value it my code will not
compile, saying the number is out of range.  I noticed that in the
actual System.Double code the number is smaller then what I see it
should be from MS........

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks!

- Bob





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