Re: [Fractdev] more parsets that render improperly in xfractint

I am curious as to how the C code can use doubles to

determine that a value is less than DBL_MIN.

*DBL_MIN* - the smallest positive normal double. I am pretty sure you can have de-normalized numbers that are smaller than this. That is the smallest normalized number. De-normalized numbers would still have the minimum exponent but would have more leading zeros in the mantissa. With 53 bits of mantissa in a double you can go about 1E-15 smaller than that number. I just ran into this when I added the arbitrary precision math to Fracton. Here is a page that has the definition for all those terms for IEEE floating point. http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPa... -- Mike Frazier www.fracton.org