Obtain minimum NEGATIVE float value in C++

Question

I was looking at std::numeric_limits::min/max() but it appears \'min()\' returns the smallest absolute value, not the lowest value. Is it safe

Answer 1

IEEE 754 floating point numbers use a sign bit for signed-ness (rather than something like twos complement), so if you're sure that your compiler/platform uses that representation (very common) then you can use -std::numeric_limits::max() as you suspected.