On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 3:25:00 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > I agree on IEEE, but I am curious why Python floats don't conform? >
IEEE doesn't raise errors because most common CPUs have no special support for that. Neither does C have a good way of dealing with exceptions. The only high-performance option is use inf/nan and carry these exceptional values through the computation. Python's floats are slow anyways, and Python error handling is designed around raising exceptions. So its a reasonable design choice to just add an explicit check for division by zero, for example. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
