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Re: INF in SPSS

Posted by jkpeck on Jan 11, 2022; 3:22am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/INF-in-SPSS-tp5740937p5740938.html

The largest possible double precision floating point number is about
1.79769 * 10**308
For single precision it would be
3.40282 * 10**38
so any number around that would serve as INF
In real life, you would never come close to that value.
The IEEE 754 standard has all the details.