Big float Round off errors



A Maxima version:

(%i1) bigfloatepsilon () := bfloat(2^-?fpprec);

Barton

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>(%i2) :lisp(defun $bigfloatepsilon () ($bfloat (div 1 (expt 2 fpprec)))));
>$BIGFLOATEPSILON
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