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<cfloat> float.h in C/C++ with Examples

This header file consists of platform-dependent and implementation specific floating point values. A floating point has four parts.

Value of floating point = ± precision X baseexponent

Macro constants

Library macros are hardware-specific values for the floating-point types.FLT implies type float, DBL implies double, and LDBL implies long double, DIG implies digits, MANT implies mantissa, EXP implies exponent.

  1. FLT_RADIX: Base for all floating-point types
    Minimum value is 2
  2. FLT_DIG: Number of decimal digits that can be rounded into a floating-point type and back again to the same decimal digits, without loss in precision.
    Minimum value is 6
  3. DBL_DIG or LDBL_DIG: Number of decimal digits that can be rounded into a floating-point and back without change in the number of decimal digits.
    Minimum value is 10
  4. DECIMAL_DIG: Decimal digits needed to represent floating-point value
    No Minimum value
  5. FLT_MANT_DIG or DBL_MANT_DIG or LDBL_MANT_DIG: Precision of mantissa i.e. the number of digits that conform the significand.
    No Minimum value
  6. FLT_MIN_EXP or DBL_MIN_EXP or LDBL_MIN_EXP: Minimum negative integer value for the exponent that generates a normalized floating-point number.
    No Minimum value
  7. FLT_MIN_10_EXP or DBL_MIN_10_EXP or LDBL_MIN_10_EXP: Minimum negative integer value for the exponent of a base-10 expression that would generate a normalized floating-point number.
    Maximum value is -37
  8. FLT_MAX_EXP or DBL_MAX_EXP or LDBL_MAX_EXP: Maximum integer value for the exponent that generates a normalized floating-point number.
    No Minimum value
  9. FLT_MAX_10_EXP or DBL_MAX_10_EXP or LDBL_MAX_10_EXP: Maximum integer value for the exponent of a base-10 expression that would generate a normalized floating-point number.
    Minimum value is 37
  10. FLT_MAX or DBL_MAX or LDBL_MAX: Maximum finite representable floating-point number.
    Minimum value is 1037
  11. FLT_EPSILON: Difference between 1 and the least value greater than 1 that is representable.
    Maximum value is 10-5
  12. DBL_EPSILON or LDBL_EPSILON: Difference between 1 and the least value greater than 1 that is representable.
    Maximum value is 10-9
  13. FLT_MIN or DBL_MIN or LDBL_MIN: Minimum representable positive floating-point number.
    Maximum value is 10-37
  14. FLT_ROUNDS: Rounds off the floating-point number
    Different possible values are:
    -1 : indeterminate
     0 : towards zero
     1 : towards one
     2 : towards positive infinity
     3 : towards negative infinity
    
  15. FLT_EVAL_METHOD: Rounds off the floating-point number
    Different possible values are:
    -1 : undetermined
     0 : evaluate just to the range 
         and precision of the type
     1 : evaluate float and double as double,
         and long double as long double.
     2 : evaluate all as long double and Other 
         negative values indicate an 
         implementation defined behavior.
    

Below is the program to demonstrate the working of macros constants in cfloat library.




// C++ program to demonstrate working
// of macros constants in cfloat library
  
#include <cfloat>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
  
int main()
{
    cout << "FLT_RADIX : "
         << FLT_RADIX << endl;
    cout << "FLT_DIG : "
         << FLT_DIG << endl;
    cout << "DECIMAL_DIG : "
         << DECIMAL_DIG << endl;
    cout << "FLT_MIN_10_EXP : "
         << FLT_MIN_10_EXP << endl;
    cout << "FLT_MAX_EXP : "
         << FLT_MAX_EXP << endl;
    cout << "FLT_MAX_10_EXP : "
         << FLT_MAX_10_EXP << endl;
    cout << "FLT_MAX : "
         << FLT_MAX << endl;
    cout << "FLT_MIN : "
         << FLT_MIN << endl;
    return 0;
}

Output (Machine Dependent):
FLT_RADIX : 2
FLT_DIG : 6
DECIMAL_DIG : 21
FLT_MIN_10_EXP : -37
FLT_MAX_EXP : 128
FLT_MAX_10_EXP : 38
FLT_MAX : 3.40282e+38
FLT_MIN : 1.17549e-38

Reference: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cfloat/


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