Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!jurjen
From: jurjen@cwi.nl (Jurjen N.E. Bos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: EXCEL LOG10 Error on MAC II
Summary: I know this number
Keywords: Excel log10 math coprocessor
Message-ID: <7642@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 15 Sep 88 07:33:03 GMT
References: <9367@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <9367@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> eto@spacely.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Edward Olsen) writes:
>I find that if I take LOG10(2.7E-20) that I come up with a #NUM! error,
>whereas LOG10(2.8E-20) computes fine.  The break point occurs at
>			LOG10(2.7105054312138E-20)

It might be interesting to point out that this number is exactly 2^-65.
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  -- Jurjen N.E. Bos (jurjen@cwi.nl)