From bug-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Jan 19 15:48:18 2003
Subject: Trivial 0ctave bug
From: "Richard E. Borcherds" <reb at Math dot Berkeley dot EDU>
To: bug-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 23:31:45 -0600

Octave version 2.1.34 incorrectly gives __realmin__ the value
2^-1022 on machines that support IEEE 754 64 bit arithmetic.
The correct value should be 2^-1074
because IEEE 754 has "subnormal"numbers. The documentation
for help __realmin__ needs fixing in the same way. (So does the numerical
analysis textbook I am using...)



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