Talk:Extreme floating point values

Why Draft?

Because I am no expert in this field and might not be using the right terms in the description or might have left something out. --Paddy3118 19:39, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Unfortunate task name

These values are not extreme. They are not numbers, and of course, not floating point. Technically they are called ideals and used to make operations like +,-,*,/ closed. Another, often better, example of ideals are numeric exceptions. They too close operations. For example, + is closed in the set of real numbers filled up by overflow-exception ideal. --Dmitry-kazakov 21:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)