| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:14:55 -0400
 | From: Paul Schlie <xxxxxx@comcast.net>
 |
 | > From: Aubrey Jaffer <xxxxxx@alum.mit.edu>
 | >
 | > If you eliminate unnormalized numbers, then the difference
 | > between all pairs of positive flonums having the most negative
 | > exponent is 0, which isn't right.
 |
 | - Agreed it's not 0, but +/- 0.0, (i.e. the reciprocal of +/- Inf.0)

Then it is some new type of infinitesimal, because adding it to
numbers with the most negative exponent returns different numbers.