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  • Interesting. This is what ChatGPT came up with which at least sounds plausible:

    The largest finite value representable in an IEEE-754 64-bit (double precision) float is

    DBL_MAX=(2−2−52)×21023=(253−1)×2971

    Its exact decimal expansion (all digits) is:

    179769313486231570814527423731704356798070567525844996598917476803157260780028538760589558632766878171540458953514382464234321326889464182768467546703537516986049910576551282076245490090389328944075868508455133942304583236903222948165808559332123348274797826204144723168738177180919299881250404026184124858368

    (309 decimal digits).

    Commonly shown in scientific notation: approximately
    1.7976931348623157 × 10^308 (this is the usual rounded display).