Am I doing something wrong here?

real.max evaluates to: 1.18973e+4932

So, I'd expect to be able to store any value up to that... however
```
void main()
{
    writeln("Real max: ", real.max);
    foreach(i; 0..10){
        writefln!("1024 ^^ %s = %s")(i, real(1024 ^^ i));
    }
}

```
Output:
```
Real max: 1.18973e+4932
1024 ^^ 0 = 1
1024 ^^ 1 = 1024
1024 ^^ 2 = 1.04858e+06
1024 ^^ 3 = 1.07374e+09
1024 ^^ 4 = 0
1024 ^^ 5 = 0
1024 ^^ 6 = 0
1024 ^^ 7 = 0
1024 ^^ 8 = 0
1024 ^^ 9 = 0
```

On Monday, 22 May 2017 at 20:26:27 UTC, colin wrote:
>         writefln!("1024 ^^ %s = %s")(i, real(1024 ^^ i));

You convert to real AFTER doing the exponent on an integer. change `real(1024 ^^ i)` to `real(1024) ^^ i` and you should get a different result.

On 05/22/2017 01:26 PM, colin wrote:
> Am I doing something wrong here?
>
> real.max evaluates to: 1.18973e+4932
>
> So, I'd expect to be able to store any value up to that... however
> ```
> void main()
> {
>     writeln("Real max: ", real.max);
>     foreach(i; 0..10){
>         writefln!("1024 ^^ %s = %s")(i, real(1024 ^^ i));

Like some other languages, expressions are mostly evaluated in isolation. 1024 ^^ i is an int, which cannot represent anything close to real.max. :)

This should work:

  real(1024) ^^ i

Ali

D'oh!

Thanks Adam and Ali :)