Error Messages/42375

Warning Message

Warning: Exponentiation of a number that is too large to represent, overflows to become INF.

Cause

This occurs when Exp(x) is evaluated for a value of x > 709.782. At that point, the result would be larger than 1.796e+308, too large to be represented by a 64-bit double precision floating point number. If you ignore this warning, the special value of INF is returned.

Remedy

In numeric applications where the values involved overflow the floating point range, a standard approach is to re-arrange your calculations to use the logarithms of the numbers instead of the numbers themselves.

See Also

• Numbers
• Number formats
• INF
• Exp
• Ln