Quoting Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>: > > On 10 Feb 2011, at 20:20, Robert Walker <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > > > Fearless Fool wrote in post #980885: > >> The gist of my question: is there a way to *portably* store and retrieve > >> Infinity in an ActiveRecord float column? > > > > Okay, first some clarifications: > > > > Infinity is not value and cannot be represented by a float (lower case). [snip] > > IEEE floats handle infinity ( > http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-and-NaN.html ). > Definitely not a rubyism >
And Not a Number (NaN). IIRC, square root of -1 is NaN. Jeffrey -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
