@ Ashwin Kulkarni
i think in the case o f double precision...baised used is 1023
and bit allocated for mantisa is 53....
therefor largest number in double precision would be...like this...
1.11111 (53 times)* 21024 l or
(2-2-53) ..* 21024 isn't it?
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