TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote:

E.g. sqrt(2) might return a special Inf that can be lazily
stringified to an arbitrary long sequence of digits of sqrt(2).


???

The sqrt(2) should be a Num of 1.414213562373 with the precision of the native floating-point that runs at full speed on the platform.

If you had a lazy high-precision float class, that's still not Inf.

--John

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