Contains constants related to the specific implementation of floating point arithmetic in the .NET framework and the Common Language Runtime.

Namespace: Extreme.Mathematics
Assembly: Extreme.Numerics (Extreme.Numerics)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)
Public NotInheritable Class MachineConstants

C#
public sealed class MachineConstants

C++
public ref class MachineConstants sealed

Methods

Icon	Type	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.
	Finalize()	Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.
	GetHashCode()	Serves as a hash function for a particular type.
	GetType()	Gets the Type of the current instance.
	MemberwiseClone()	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.
	ToString()	Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Fields

Icon	Type	Description
	CubeRootEpsilon	Represents the cube root of the machine precision Epsilon for double-precision floating point numbers.
	CubeRootSingleEpsilon	Represents the cube root of the machine precision SingleEpsilon for single-precision floating point numbers.
	Epsilon	Represents the machine precision for double-precision floating point numbers.
	LogMaxDouble	Represents the natural logarithm of MaxDouble.
	LogMaxSingle	Represents the natural logarithm of MaxSingle.
	LogMinDouble	Represents the natural logarithm of MinDouble.
	LogMinSingle	Represents the natural logarithm of MinSingle.
	MaxDouble	Represents the largest possible value of a double-precision floating point number.
	MaxSingle	Represents the largest possible value of a single-precision floating point number.
	MinDouble	Represents the smallest double-precision floating point number that is greater than zero.
	MinNormalizedDouble	Represents the smallest normalized double-precision floating point number that is greater than zero.
	MinNormalizedSingle	Represents the smallest normalized single-precision floating point number that is greater than zero.
	MinSingle	Represents the smallest single-precision floating point number that is greater than zero.
	SingleEpsilon	Represents the machine precision for single-precision floating point numbers.
	SqrtEpsilon	Represents the square root of the machine precision Epsilon for double-precision floating point numbers.
	SqrtMaxDouble	Represents the square root of MaxDouble.
	SqrtMaxSingle	Represents the square root of MaxSingle.
	SqrtMinDouble	Represents the square root of MinDouble.
	SqrtMinSingle	Represents the square root of MinSingle.
	SqrtSingleEpsilon	Represents the square root of the machine precision SingleEpsilon for single-precision floating point numbers.

Remarks

The Single and Double floating-point types in the Common Language Specification follow the IEEE-754 standard for single and double-precision floating-point numbers.

Any number representation is necessarily limited. This class provides constants that specify these limits for the CLS' floating-point types.

Many of these constants are also available in the Single and Double classes. Unfortunately, these definitions do not follow the standard conventions.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Extreme.Mathematics.MachineConstants