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by ilius2 559 days ago
If you were to define a/0 the most logical choice would be a new special value "Infinity". The second best choice would be the maximum supported value of the type of a (int, int64 etc). Anything else would be stupid.
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sidpatil 559 days ago
What if a is negative?
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ilius2 559 days ago
Same. Unless you want to differentiate -0 and +0 (which make it more complicated), you can not distinguish infinity from negative infinity.
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jsnedjdn 559 days ago
IEEE floating point representation does both
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HappMacDonald 559 days ago
John Conway can
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