dlamch

Determine double-precision floating-point machine parameters.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/lapack-base-dlamch

Usage

var dlamch = require( '@stdlib/lapack-base-dlamch' );

dlamch( cmach )

Determines double-precision floating-point machine parameters.

var out = dlamch( 'E' );
// returns 1.1102230246251565e-16

The function has the following parameters:

• cmach: specifies the value to be returned. The following characters are supported:

  • 'E'/'e': (eps) relative machine precision.
  • 'S'/'s': (sfmin) safe minimum such that 1/sfmin does not overflow.
  • 'B'/'b': (base) base of the machine (also known as the floating-point radix).
  • 'P'/'p': (prec) eps*base.
  • 'N'/'n': (t) number of (base) digits in the mantissa.
  • 'R'/'r': (rnd) 1.0 when rounding occurs in addition and 0.0 otherwise.
  • 'M'/'m': (emin) minimum exponent before (gradual) underflow.
  • 'U'/'u': (rmin) underflow threshold.
  • 'L'/'l': (emax) largest exponent before overflow.
  • 'O'/'o': (rmax) overflow threshold.

Notes

• dlamch() corresponds to the LAPACK function dlamch.

Examples

var dlamch = require( '@stdlib/lapack-base-dlamch' );

var out = dlamch( 'E' );
console.log( 'Precision: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'S' );
console.log( 'Safe minimum: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'B' );
console.log( 'Base: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'P' );
console.log( 'Precision*base: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'N' );
console.log( 'Number of digits in mantissa: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'R' );
console.log( 'Rounding: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'M' );
console.log( 'Minimum exponent before underflow: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'U' );
console.log( 'Underflow threshold: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'L' );
console.log( 'Maximum exponent before overflow: %d', out );

out = dlamch( 'O' );
console.log( 'Overflow threshold: %d', out );

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