On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And while it's >> conceivable to define that infinity divided by anything is infinity, >> and infinity modulo anything is zero, that raises serious issues of >> primality and such; I'm not sure that that would really help anything. > > I missed that this point was already discussed. Can you elaborate on > the "serious issues of primality and such"? Since infinity is not a > natural number, its primality is undefined, so I don't see the issue > here.
It's not something I've personally worked with, so I'm trying to dredge stuff up from my brain, but I think there's something along the lines of "stuff shouldn't be a multiple of everything" and the Prime Number Theorem. But that may just be a case where float != real. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
