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incorrect floatmin? #82

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stevengj opened this issue Dec 14, 2018 · 1 comment · Fixed by #107
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incorrect floatmin? #82

stevengj opened this issue Dec 14, 2018 · 1 comment · Fixed by #107

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We currently use the definition Base.floatmin(::Type{$T}) = $(_nextfloat(zero(T))).

However, floatmin in Julia is defined to give the smallest non-subnormal value. For binary floating point, this is actually nextfloat(zero(T)) / eps(T), so maybe we should use the same definition?
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See also JuliaLang/julia#30387

@jmkuhn jmkuhn mentioned this issue Mar 14, 2020
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Correct floatmin() jmkuhn/DecFP.jl
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