10 Jan
2008
10 Jan
'08
3:24 p.m.
John Meacham
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
The special case of 1/0 is less clear, though. One might decide that it should be an error rather than NaN, as some languages have.
It is neither,
1/0 = Infinity -1/0 = -Infinity
Just out of curiosity: 1/-0 = -Infinity? -1/-0 = Infinity? If you don't have two separate values for nothing, one approaching from negativeness and one from positiveness, defining the result to be infinite instead of NaN makes no sense IMHO. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.