[PD-dev] [float infinity] and [float -infinity]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

You might notice, I am doing some math these days ;).  I just had  
another idea for a handy thing when doing math: a method of getting the  
smallest and largest possible numbers.  Basically, the Pd version of a  
#define INFINITY 1e37 (or whatever it is).

I think it would be handy to have as part of [float], like this:

[float infinity] and [float -infinity]  (FLT_MAX and FLT_MIN)
or maybe:
[float max] and [float min]  (FLT_MAX and FLT_MIN)

Other float.h defines would also be handy to have access to:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Floating-Point- 
Parameters.html

Something like this:

[float max_exp] (FLT_MAX_EXP)
[float min_exp] (FLT_MIN_EXP)

And perhaps [int] could also have the relevant versions of the same  
too.  I guess that would just be:

[int infinity] and [int -infinity]
or maybe:
[int max] and [int min]

I don't think I'll have time to code this any time soon, but I can put  
it into feature requests...

.hc

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