Konstantin Preisser made an interesting discovery, after reading my article “PHP Hangs On Numeric Value 2.2250738585072011e-308”: Java — both its runtime and compiler — go into an infinite loop when converting the decimal number 2.2250738585072012e-308 to double-precision binary floating-point.
J. Lima, and A. Sombra. 1999 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S INTERNATIONAL MICROWAVE AND OPTOELECTRONICS
CONFERENCE, PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1 & 2: WIRELESS AND PHOTONICS BUILDING
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Conference, RIO JANEIRO, BRAZIL, AUG 09-12, 1999.