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The representation of floating point numbers: lib float_parameters

In order to obtain information about decimals and ddecimals in your version of Pop-11 use the following library

    lib float_parameters
This provides the following implementation dependent constants, all of which are explained fully in REF NUMBERS:

        pop_most_positive_decimal
        pop_least_positive_decimal
        pop_least_negative_decimal
        pop_most_negative_decimal
        pop_most_positive_ddecimal
        pop_least_positive_ddecimal
        pop_least_negative_ddecimal
        pop_most_negative_ddecimal

        pop_plus_epsilon_decimal
        pop_plus_epsilon_ddecimal
        pop_minus_epsilon_decimal
        pop_minus_epsilon_ddecimal
Additional information about the representation of individual floating point numbers can be obtained using facilities defined below.



Aaron Sloman
Fri Jan 2 03:17:44 GMT 1998