On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 12:18, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > On 2020-06-16 11:49, Dean Rasheed wrote: > > With [1], we could return 'Infinity', which would be more correct from > > a mathematical point of view, and might be preferable to erroring-out > > in some contexts. > > But the limit of the gamma function is either negative or positive > infinity, depending on from what side you come, so we can't just return > one of those two. >
Hmm yeah, although that's only really the case if you define it in terms of continuous real input values. I think you're probably right though. Raising an out-of-range error seems like the best option. Regards, Dean
