Signal overflow by raising an exception
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Key: MATH-433
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-433
Project: Commons Math
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Gilles
Priority: Minor
Referring to the ML thread (with subject "Factorial").
Shouldn't Commons-Math always raise an exception when overflow is detected,
including in cases where the Java language specification has decided to return
infinity?
It was argued, in the ML thread on "FunctionEvaluationException", that it was
much better to raise an exception than to rely on special values to detect
problems. I think that the same argument fits perfectly in this case.
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