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Re: Re: Re: No Worries. Rh7.3 - 5.6.1nothread, 5.8.0ithreadsby BronzeWing (Monk) |
on Apr 24, 2003 at 13:34 UTC ( [id://252889]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Long doubles, I believe. It lets your scalars hold up to somewhere in the range of -BronzeWing Update: Hmm. I don't know where I got 10**1700, but I just compiled perl 5.8.0 for i686-linux-thread-multi-ld and it actually gets up to 10**4931 before it gives up and turns into 'inf'.
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