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1e400 == 10**400 is False? [duplicate]
In Python, 1e400 evaluates to inf, but 10**400 prints out just fine. Theoretically, 1e(x) is supposed to be 10**x, but why and when does this break down?
In a related vein, 1e5 == 10**5 evaluates to ...
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Avoid Overflow from Exponential With Very large negative numbers python
I am writing a code where I calculate an exponential distribution from data points. When running the code, the exponential resulted in arrays of zero. To avoid overflow, I took the log of the ...
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Python OverflowError: math range error being raised differently in different runs
My program seems to be crashing almost arbitrarily.
My code includes these two lines:
z[i, j] = -math.exp(oneminusbeta[j, i])
weights[i,j] = math.exp(beta[j,i] + oneminusbeta[j,i])
I've run my whole ...
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math overflow for a not very overflowing calculation in python
The calculation for which I'm getting the math overflow number is:
e2 = math.exp([[-20.7313399283991]])
There are actually more extreme numbers that I've done than this, why is this causing an ...
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