On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:17:18AM +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> The special case of 1/0 is less clear, though. One might
> decide that it should be an error rather than NaN, as some
> languages have.
It is neither,
1/0 = Infinity
-1/0 = -Infinity
At least on IEEE style floating point systems. (this isn't mandated by
the haskell standard though I believe)
John
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