
10 Jan
2008
10 Jan
'08
3:16 p.m.
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 At least on IEEE style floating point systems. (this isn't mandated by the haskell standard though I believe) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈