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 -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
