The elements in the uninitialised array / vector?

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This is probably a simple question. The code is this:
julia> Vector{Float64}(undef,3)

The output:

3-element Array{Float64,1}:
6.92297776986275e-310
6.92297776986354e-310
6.92297776986433e-310

I do not know what is exactly the meaning of the elements in the output of the 3-element Array. Are they randomly given or? I thought the vector is uninitialized, right?

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I’m not in the computer right now, but I think that is the representation of a float64 of the bit value 0000000...000, you can try with println(bitstring(x[1])) to see what’s happening. About why 64 zero bits have that representation… I don’t know, that’s how floating point works :man_shrugging:

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julia> a=Vector{Float64}(undef,3)
3-element Array{Float64,1}:
 2.219358699e-314
 2.21936164e-314
 2.2085939415e-314

julia> println(bitstring(a[1]))
0000000000000000000000000000000100001011101111101111100000010000

I changed to my MAC book pro and the above is the code. Does this seem reasonable?

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From Wikipedia, the first bit is the sign, the bites 2-12 are the exponent, and the rest are significant digits, so it makes sense

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That is correct and the numbers you see are what happened to be in the memory that got allocated.

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