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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients christian.heimes, mark.dickinson, rpetrov, skip.montanaro, tim.peters
Date 2009-01-04.23:14:36
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Answering my own question, there *are* pitfalls: (X) > DBL_LONG_MAX will 
evaluate to true for some finite extended precision values that are *just* 
larger than DBL_LONG_MAX, but nevertheless round to DBL_LONG_MAX rather 
than infinity.

Another not-so-bright idea down the drain...
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