Number.MAX_VALUE, the largest double
The sign, exponent and mantissa bits of 1.7976931348623157e308, and the exact value it stores.
Stored value and bits
Examples
Note
All exponent bits but the last are ones, and every mantissa bit is one. Anything larger overflows to Infinity.
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