On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:41:53PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > David Roundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 09:24:34PM +0100, Achim Schneider wrote: > > > John Meacham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1/0 = Infinity > > > > -1/0 = -Infinity > > > > > > Just out of curiosity: > > > > > > 1/-0 = -Infinity? > > > -1/-0 = Infinity? > > > > Yes. (You could have tried this for yourself, you know... but I > > suppose haskell-cafe isn't a bad interactive Haskell interpreter, > > perhaps more user friendly than ghci.) > > Prelude> 1 `div` 0 > *** Exception: divide by zero > > That's it. One just shouldn't just extrapolate and think you didn't mean > GHC but IEEE...
Prelude> 1/(-0) -Infinity You need to use the / operator, if you want to do floating-point division. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
