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by lelf 5217 days ago
1/(0-0) = -∞, 1/(0+0) = ∞
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Actually, (0-0) evaluates to +0 in the default rounding mode, so both of those expressions will typically return +∞.

1/-0 will give you -∞, of course.

Well, I meant it as in math notation, not in C.

(Strictly speaking, 1/0 in C is kaboom! (undefined behaviour))