On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 07:48:23PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Actually, 1/0 is not NaN; it's +Infinity.  You only get NaN out of
> dividing by 0 if the numerator is either infinite or also 0.

There are several verbal proofs why 1/0 is not +Infinity here:
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html 


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