'real' not able to store it's largest value

[Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn]

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