At 12:48 31/05/2006 +0100, you wrote: >PEPS. Infinity. I considered introducing infinity in Minerva, but I >wouldn't have been happy with just the one. > >-- >Lau & Marcel
So if it is possible for the computer to handle infinity how and where is it done ? Processor or co-processor ? Operating system ? Programme, spreadsheet or calculator ? Would it be dependent on how numbers were represented internally ? I can't see how one can calculate to infinity even though it is simple to reason that there are an infinite number of points on a finite line. 1/0 , 0^0 (==0/0) each produce errors in MSExcel. Unsurprising, I suppose, that I see no font containing the symbol. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.8.0/352 - Release Date: 30/05/2006 _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
