(** This file is part of the Flocq formalization of floating-point arithmetic in Coq: http://flocq.gforge.inria.fr/  Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Sylvie Boldo #<br /># Copyright (C) 2010-2013 Guillaume Melquiond  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the COPYING file for more details. *)
(** * Unit in the Last Place: our definition using fexp and its properties, successor and predecessor *)
Section Fcore_ulp.
Variable beta : radix.
Notation bpow e := (bpow beta e).
Variable fexp : Z -> Z.
(** Definition and basic properties about the minimal exponent, when it exists *)

(* Specifications: *)
Lemma Z_le_dec_aux: forall x y : Z, (x <= y)%Z \/ ~ (x <= y)%Z.
Definition negligible_exp: option Z :=
match (LPO_Z _ (fun z => Z_le_dec_aux z (fexp z))) with
| inleft N => Some (proj1_sig N)
| inright _ => None
end.