Problem 354. Back to basics 10 - Max Float

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Covering some basic topics I haven't seen elsewhere on Cody.

Return the largest positive floating-point number MATLAB can handle.

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David Verrelli on 5 Nov 2017

Strictly this problem is about finding the largest floating-point number that MATLAB can handle _natively_, i.e. with _dedicated_, _built-in_ commands. Besides ad hoc workarounds, it is also possible to use Java objects to compute with arbitrarily large numbers. Cf. https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1833

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