<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>maxExponent</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="___Maximal__Rank.html">next</a> | <a href="_max_lp__Graded__Module_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="___Maximal__Rank.html">forward</a> | <a href="_max_lp__Graded__Module_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>maxExponent</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div>This constant is the largest exponent (of 2) that can be stored internally in the binary representation of an inexact real (or complex) number. It cannot be changed.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : maxExponent o1 = 1073741823</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="waystouse"><h2>For the programmer</h2> <p>The object <a href="_max__Exponent.html" title="">maxExponent</a> is <span>an <a href="___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>.</p> </div> </div> </body> </html>