'How to get the smallest next or previous possible double value supported by the architecture?
Lets say I have a double variable d. Is there a way to get the next or previous value that is supported by the CPU architecture.
As a trivial example, if the value was 10.1245125 and the precision of the architecture was fixed to 7 decimal places, then the next value would be 10.1245126 and the previous value would be 10.1245124.
Obviously on floating-point architectures this is not that simple. How would I be able to achieve this (in Java)?
Solution 1:[1]
Math.nextUp and Math.nextDown can be used to get the next/previous element, which are equivalent to the proposed methods in the accepted answer, but more concise.
(this info has been originally provided as a comment by @BjörnZurmaar)
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