Infinity in floating point
The sign, exponent and mantissa bits of Infinity, and the exact value it stores.
Stored value and bits
Examples
Note
All exponent bits are ones and the mantissa is zero. Dividing a non-zero number by zero gives Infinity, not an error.
Other notable values
- 0.1 in floating point
- Why 0.1 + 0.2 is not 0.3
- Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (2^53 - 1)
- 2^53 + 1 cannot be stored
- Number.EPSILON (machine epsilon)
- Number.MAX_VALUE, the largest double
- Number.MIN_VALUE, the smallest double
- Negative zero (-0) in floating point
- NaN (not a number) in floating point
- Infinity in floating point
- 16777217, the first integer a float cannot store
- 1/3 in floating point