Re: tcl-math(8.5): big-doubles? how do you do it?

Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
The range of doubles goes up to about 1e308.
Still, expr {sqrt(10**600)} correctly gives me 1e+300.
How does it handle the too-large-for-double argument?

Use the Source, Luke. :^)

ExprSqrtFunc() is in tclBasic.c, and I don't think it's too
tricky to follow.

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