I have been developing a python module for Markov chain Monte Carlo estimation, in which I frequently compare variable values with a very large number, that I arbitrarily define as:
inf = 1e10000 However, on Windows (have tried on Mac, Linux) I get the following behaviour: >>> inf = 1e10000 >>> inf 1.0 while I would have expected: 1.#INF Smaller numbers, as expected, yield: >>> inf = 1e100 >>> inf 1e+100 Obviously, I cannot use the former to compare against large (but not infinite) numbers, at least not to get the result I expect. Has anyone seen this behaviour? Thanks, Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
