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Luc Maisonobe closed MATH-433.
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Closing an issue that was not a problem
> 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
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> 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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