Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Unfortunately Wikipedia doesn't seem to have much to say about double 
> precision floating point arithmetic. Can anybody tell me what the 
> smallest (positive) number you can "reliably" take the reciprocol of is? 
> ("Reliably" as in "with some degree of numerical precision".)
> 

2^-1022, I believe.  This is the smallest positive number that can be 
represented by a double.

...Chambers

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