BASIC: What is the minimum value that a double variable can hold?

LibreOffice Help states:

Double variables can take positive or negative values ranging from 1.79769313486232 x 10E308 to 4.94065645841247 x 10E-324.

On 64-bit Windows 11 and 7, with LibO 25.2.5.2, the following macro

sub Main

Dim varD As Double
varD = 4.94065645841247E-324

end sub

generates the error message:

“Inadmissible value or data type.
Overflow.”

Regression in 4.1.

yep. here too : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/BASIC_Guide#Double_Variables

seems you can go an extra mile with 4.94065645841247E-308 * 10E-17 :expressionless:

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