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| Mar 14, 2014 at 11:20 | comment | added | ulidtko | IEEE 754 specifies two models: signalling NaN/Inf (which raise exceptions on FP zero division, square root from -1, underflow/overflow, etc), and non-signalling (which treats NaN/Inf just like regular argebraic values with well-defined math on them). Modern FP hardware can be configured to operate both ways. Language-agnostic; shame not to know. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 23:38 | comment | added | Navin | @nwk The IEEE standard for floats says division by zero must be an inf. I don't know of any languages that change this. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 14:39 | comment | added | temporary_user_name | A.k.a. JavaScript. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 20:28 | comment | added | nwk | @Navin: in any language with floats where division by zero doesn't cause an error. | |
| Mar 8, 2014 at 21:01 | comment | added | Navin | meh, this happens in any language with floats. | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 20:01 | comment | added | intx13 | You should be able to do some tricks with NaN too... | |
| Mar 7, 2014 at 6:01 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 7, 2014 at 5:43 | history | answered | temporary_user_name | CC BY-SA 3.0 |