[ksh93-integration-discuss] Minimum and maximum values for integer variables?

[David Korn]

Subject: Re: Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Minimum and maximum values for  integer variables?
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> What are the minimum and maximum values of 'float' (typeset -E)?

float is (typeset -lE).  Technically the largest value is Inf and the
minimum is -Inf.  However, the largest non-infinite value is the largest
long double on the architecture.  typeset -E is the largest double.


David Korn
dgk at research.att.com