# find largest floating point number eps such that
# eps is beyond the precision of the mantissa for a
# converted integer
# for ECS 10, Spring 2009, April 13, 2009
# Matt Bishop

# start here
eps = 1.0;

# Now loop until adding it to 1 makes no difference
while (1.0 != 1.0 + eps):
	eps = eps / 2.0;
	# print as you go
	print "eps =", eps;

# Announce success and quit
print "GOT IT -- eps =", eps