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MINREAL

Returns the smallest positive REAL number.
 
 MINREAL
 
Usage:
IF X<MINREAL*Y THEN GOTO Underflow
 
Example:           MINREAL.BAS
 
Description:
MINREAL returns the smallest 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 smallest positive REAL number is approximately 2.225 073 858 507 24E-308.
 
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