Return the largest integer that can be represented within a floating point value.
The default class is "double"
, but "single"
is a
valid option. On IEEE-754 compatible systems, bitmax
is
2^{53} - 1 for "double"
and 2^{24} -1 for
"single"
.
See also: flintmax, intmax, realmax, realmin.
Package: octave