eturn a value that is many orders of magnitude too large.
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        In light of the issues above, we recomend that:
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            To move between adjacent floating-point values always use <a class="link" href="float_next.html" title="Finding the Next Greater Representable Value (float_next)">float_next</a>,
            <a class="link" href="float_prior.html" title=