Reference no: EM132357045

Question

1) How to write a function that finds the machine epsilon by determining the smallest floating point number larger than 1 that can be stored? (This should return the base 2 exponent for this number)

2) How to write a function that finds the largest floating point number?

3) How to write a function that finds the smallest floating point number?

Here is the code you have so far. (just have to modify this code to find those numbers..)

n = 1
x = 2.**(-n)
while 1 + x !=1:
n += 1
x = 2.**(-n)
print(n - 1)