On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011: > > > > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating > > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to > > say the "car" would crash. > > It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely.
Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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