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Project: Floating Point Underflow

Write a program to print the positive floating point value closest to 0 that is possible to represent accurately with [[IEEE doubles]]. Also print a value slightly closer to show that it becomes 0. Does the language produce an error or simply a warning on underflow?

Output
$ javac -Xlint FloatingPointUnderflow.java $ java -ea FloatingPointUnderflow Small float: 1.0E-308 Smaller float: 1.0E-320 Smallest float: 0.0

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