Re: about 'round' function on mingw

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Apr-2008, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:

| Hello
| This is just a forwarded mail that I've post to mingw ML.
| 
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| Hello
| 
| I've searched by myself
| 
| octave:6> help bitmax
|  -- Built-in Function:  bitmax ()
|     Return the largest integer that can be represented as a floating
|     point value.  On IEEE-754 compatiable systems, `bitmax' is `2^53 -
|     1'.
| 
| bitmax is a built-in function
| 
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| octave:7> bitmax
| ans =  9.00719925474099e+15
| 
| Is this information OK?

Yes.  The precise integer value is

  segfault:124> echo "2^53-1" | bc
  9007199254740991

jwe