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7 Sep 2024 03:20:53 EDT (-0400)
  Double precision  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 24 Aug 2008 08:21:28
Message: <48b15248$1@news.povray.org>
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".)

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