On Nov 10, 8:16 pm, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and how to handle out-of-range floats coming back (if I recall > correctly, the IBM format allows a wider range of exponents > than IEEE). >
Whoops---wrong way around. It looks like it's IEEE that has the larger exponent range. DBL_MAX is around 2.**252 for IBM and 2.**1024 for IEEE. Sorry. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
