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Re: Indeterminate math
From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
October 14, 2002 17:15
Subject:
Re: Indeterminate math
Message ID:
20021015001533.GA29682@ool-18b93024.dyn.optonline.net
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:48:23PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Actually, 1/0 is not NaN; it's +Infinity. You only get NaN out of
> dividing by 0 if the numerator is either infinite or also 0.
There are several verbal proofs why 1/0 is not +Infinity here:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html
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Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
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Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada
the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by detonation.
-- Larry Wall in <199911192212.OAA23621@kiev.wall.org>