x02al returns the largest positive floating-point number.

Syntax

C#
public static double x02al()
Visual Basic
Public Shared Function x02al As Double
Visual C++
public:
static double x02al()
F#
static member x02al : unit -> float 

Return Value

x02al returns the largest positive floating-point number.

Description

x02al returns the largest positive number in the model of floating-point arithmetic described in the x02. The returned value is equal to 1-b-p×bemax, where b is the arithmetic base (see x02bh) and emax is the maximum exponent (see (X02BLF not in this release)) in the model.

References

None.

Error Indicators and Warnings

ifail=-9000
An error occured, see message report.

Accuracy

None.

Parallelism and Performance

None.

Further Comments

None.

Example

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