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Re:Floating point explorer by rwmj on Saturday May 26, 2018 @11:27AM (#17162538)
Mostly seems to be "TODO". It would be nice if it showed the binary representation and a number line in a graphical format. How dense are the numbers around this one? What is the next larger/smaller representable number? Is the number denormalized? etc.
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Re:Floating point explorer by amelius on Saturday May 26, 2018 @12:31PM (#17162876)
> How dense are the numbers around this one?

Isn't that what the "epsilon" field tells us?

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