[Coco] One-liners coming through!

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 25 June 2007, George's Coco Address wrote:
> I don't know what this means....
>
>I did try this with Basic09 and when it got to a point, it seems to
>choke....
>
>1.8547708E+37
>3.00108219E+37
>4.85585298E+37
>7.85693518E+37
>1.27127882E+38
>1.77643598E-39
>1.27127882E+38
>1.27127882E+38
>2.19579563E-39
>1.27127882E+38
>1.27127882E+38
>2.19579563E-39
>1.27127882E+38
>1.27127882E+38

Someplace in the above set of numbers, is the overflow point of a double 
float, and the behaviour beyond that is I believe, undefined, but could be 
manifested as sign changes in the exponent.

>Brian, how did you find this on Yahoo? I have no idea what these numbers
>mean.
>
>
>From: "Brian Blake"
>
>> Well my real coco3 is at home and Vcc was the only thing I have installed
>> on my PC at work. In either case +37 or +38, I cannot concieve a need, in
>> my life, to work with a number that large...
>>
>> BTW... thanks yahoo:
>>
>> 8,099,999,999,999,997,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
>
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