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MAXREAL

Returns the largest positive REAL number.
 
 MAXREAL
 
Usage:
IF X>MAXREAL/Y THEN GOTO Overflow
 
Example: MAXREAL.BAS
 
Description:
MAXREAL returns the largest positive REAL number that the computer can represent in its floating point number system. On computer systems that use the IEEE floating point number standard, the largest positive REAL number is approximately 1.797 693 134 862 32E+308.
 
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