From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Feb 27 11:30:56 2002
Subject: Re: Problem with exp-function
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian dot org>
To: Andreas Helms <helms at astro dot physik dot uni-potsdam dot de>
Cc: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:30:46 -0600

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:13:22PM +0100, Andreas Helms wrote:
> octave:10> exp(-730)
> error: floating point exception -- trying to return to prompt

I cannot reproduce this using octave 2.1.35 on Linux - I get 9.2263e-318.

Dirk

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