Minimum value which "Floating point value" can handle

by djordje

Jun 13, 2012

I was wondering what is the minimum "Floating point value" Grasshopper can handle?

-1 x 10^-6 ?

I noticed Panel (String) can handle values lower than this, so maybe this handicap of not being able to type in the values less than -1 x 10^-6 in "Floating point value", can be bypassed by multiplying this value with another -1 x 10^-6. That way I will get -1 x 10^-12, right? And so on, and so on?

What is the minimum "Floating point value" Panel (String) can take?

Thank you.

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    David Rutten

    4.94065645841247 x 10-324

    

    
Also known as System.Double.Epsilon. Grasshopper uses standard IEEE 754 compliant double precision floating point values. In the interface floating point numbers are often rounded to 6 decimal places, but that's only display, internally the values are not clipped or rounded.
    

    
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