/* From: "COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS, 2nd Ed" by RH Landau, MJ Paez, and CC Bordeianu Copyright Wiley-VCH, 2007. Electronic Materials copyright: R Landau, Oregon State Univ, 2007; MJ Paez, Univ Antioquia, 2007; and CC Bordeianu, Univ Bucharest, 2007. Support by National Science Foundation */ // Limits.java: Determines machine precision public class Limits { public static void main(String[] args) { final int N = 60; int i; double eps = 1., onePlusEps; for ( i = 0; i < N; i=i + 1) { eps = eps/2.; onePlusEps = 1. + eps; System.out.println("onePlusEps = " +onePlusEps+", eps = "+eps); } } }