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in thread Determining the minimum representable increment/decrement possible?

Ignore this. I'm seeing things.

You would need quad precision to represent 1.9041105342991887e+258.

That's bogus. Double precision is all that is required to represent that value:

F:\test>perl -V:doublesize
doublesize='8';

F:\test>perl -e"my $double = 1.9041105342991887e+258; printf qq[%25.17
+g], $double;"
  1.9041105342991899e+258

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