On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 15:30:55 +0000, Jordan Henderson said:

>Thank you for reporting this issue. I had naively assumed that
>Float.MIN_VALUE would represent the minimum value of a Float as opposed
>to your suggested -Float.MAX_VALUE. Why the choice was made to use this
>constant name for the precision of a Float and not having
>Float.MIN_VALUE be defined to be - Float.MAX_VALUE, I do not know

It likely comes from C/C++:

<http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/types/limits>

Cheers,

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Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada



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