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1.1       root        1: .TH FLMIN 3F "13 June 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: flmin, flmax, ffrac, dflmin, dflmax, dffrac, inmax \- return extreme values
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B function flmin()
                      7: .sp 1
                      8: .B function flmax()
                      9: .sp 1
                     10: .B function ffrac()
                     11: .sp 1
                     12: .B double precision function dflmin()
                     13: .sp 1
                     14: .B double precision function dflmax()
                     15: .sp 1
                     16: .B double precision function dffrac()
                     17: .sp 1
                     18: .B function inmax()
                     19: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     20: Functions
                     21: .I flmin
                     22: and
                     23: .I flmax
                     24: return the minimum and maximum positive floating point values respectively.
                     25: Functions
                     26: .I dflmin
                     27: and
                     28: .I dflmax
                     29: return the minimum and maximum positive double precision floating point values.
                     30: Function
                     31: .I inmax
                     32: returns the maximum positive integer value.
                     33: .PP
                     34: The functions
                     35: .I ffrac
                     36: and
                     37: .I dffrac
                     38: return the fractional accuracy of single and double precision
                     39: floating point numbers respectively.
                     40: These are the smallest numbers that can be added to 1.0 without being lost.
                     41: .PP
                     42: These functions can be used by programs that must scale algorithms
                     43: to the numerical range of the processor.
                     44: .SH FILES
                     45: .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libF77.a
                     46: .el /usr/lib/libF77.a

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