If min is a smallest number, why 1/min is not "infinity"?

[nisar]

Hi,
I am reading "Infinite Powers-Steven Strogatz" and I was able to explain to my 13 year old nephew how to understand infinity. Here is the explanation of Steven Strogatz:

And I wanted to quickly show that in Snap! For that I wrote a program: Snap! 6.9.2 Build Your Own Blocks
Snap program:

Quick output from snap:

To replicate the same thing, if my minimum number is min, and I am able to get "infinity" when I calculate 1/min, that would have served my purpose. But, I see the the approximate minimum(min) in Snap! as 1e-9, so 1/min can never be infinity.
Any thoughts are welcome?
Thanks a lot!
Nisar
PS: This is what python says:

[warped_wart_wars]

Wouldn't you get ZeroDivisionError there? I don't understand how you're not getting an error. I just realized before is bigger than f, that's why.

Edit:

Python 3.7.8 (tags/v3.7.8:4b47a5b6ba, Jun 28 2020, 08:53:46) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> f = 1.0
>>> while f:
	before = f
	f = f/10.0

>>> before
1e-323
>>> 1/before
inf
>>> 

I got the same result as you. But:

>>> 1/0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#7>", line 1, in <module>
    1/0
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
>>> 

[warped_wart_wars]

I did exactly what you did in Python but in Snap!, and I got , the same result as in Python. And:

But:

[nisar]

Please run the program in the link above and also look at the code...
Can you please share your program ?

[warped_wart_wars]

Here's my code:

And my project: Here

[nisar]

Sorry. I checked it and it is not working as you said...

[toontalk]

niscar's program worked fine for me. Could it depend upon the OS and/or browser? Unlikely since JavaScript is pretty standardized these days.

[warped_wart_wars]

Probably OS. 32-bit, 64-bit etc. I'm on a 64-bit Windows 10, my browser is Chrome.

[nisar]

Another observation:you can see the variable value of "before" on the right but in the script page it is something else...

[warped_wart_wars]

The "1e-323" is the correct one. Variable watchers round the result.

[nisar]

Thank you very much! I never knew about "variable watchers" rounding and also the other way around(double clicking) to get the value of the variable...

[warped_wart_wars]

Double clicking? You only need to click once on the variable reporter.

[nisar]

My mistake...Thank you again!