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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
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Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 2024-12-19, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>> I have contemplated ditching planes for trains, but I don't think the 
>> result would be much better. Perhaps less security theater?
>
>     Some people like to travel by train because it combines
>     the slowness of a car with the cramped public exposure
>     of an airplane.  -- Dennis Miller

My dad took us (I and my sister) on train trips. I remember in the
dining car being asked if I wanted a Continental Breakfast. My kid's
mind imagined a breakfast feast, with eggs and sausage or bacon.

Bleh, it was a pastry.  :-(

Similar with my mother. She asked if I wanted a "pine float". I
imagined a nice soda with ice cream and whipped cream.... It
was a toothpick floating on a glass of water. She cackled.

ObLinux:

Grepping for FLT_MAX, partial list:

    /usr/include/values.h:#define   MAXFLOAT    FLT_MAX
    /usr/include/values.h:#define   FMAXEXP     FLT_MAX_EXP

Now look for defines of FLT_MAX.

-- 
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so
little to recommend it.
		-- Allan Sherman