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The smallest number that is infinite
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The smallest number that is infinite
In software, we represent real numbers as binary floating-point numbers. Effectively, we represent real numbers as a fixed-precision integer (the significand) multiplied by a power of two. Thus we do not represent exactly the number ‘pi’, but we get a very…
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