Henning Thielemann wrote:
On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Robert Dockins wrote:
What IEEE has done is shoehorned in some values that aren't really
numbers into their representation (NaN certainly; one could make a
convincing argument that +Inf and -Inf aren't numbers).
I wonder why Infinity has a sign in IEEE floating processing, as well as
0. To support this behaviour uniformly one would need a +0 or -0 offset
for each number, which would lead straightforward to non-standard analysis
...
IEEE floats support both affine (signed) and projective (unsigned)
infinity. Projective is more natural in some circumstances (since
you can do a Möbius transformation from a circle to an infinite line).
Haskell, on the othet hand, does not let you specify the mode.
-- Lennart
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