minexponent

Date:: 10-12-2011

NAME

MINEXPONENT - Returns the minimum (most negative) exponent of a real number in the numeric model

SYNOPSIS

MINEXPONENT ([X=]x)

IMPLEMENTATION

Cray Linux Environment (CLE)

STANDARDS

Fortran

DESCRIPTION

The MINEXPONENT intrinsic function returns the minimum (most negative) exponent of a real number in the numeric model representing numbers of the same type and kind type parameter as the argument. The real number model is defined in the models(3i) man page. It accepts the following argument:

x: Must be of type real. It can be scalar or array valued.

MINEXPONENT is an inquiry function. The name of this intrinsic cannot be passed as an argument.

RETURN VALUES

The result is a default integer scalar. The result has the value

emin

as defined in the model, which represents numbers of the same type and kind type parameter as x.