[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Storrs) writes:
> Does it even make sense to take the Infiniteth element of an array?
You should have used a hash in the first place.
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"Ph. Marek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Please take my words as my understanding, ie. with no connection to
> mathmatics or number theory or whatever. I'll just say what I
> believe is practical.
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> I'd believe that infinity can be integer, ie. has no numbers after
> the comma; and infinity
David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does it even make sense to take the Infiniteth element of an array?
No. At best, it would be undefined, so we could define it to return
undef.
> I think I would prefer if using Inf as an array index resulted in a
> trappable error.
Or that, yeah.
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Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Half of all numbers in [0, Inf) are in the range [Inf/2, Inf). Which
> collapses to the range [Inf, Inf).
It's not that simple. By that reasoning, 10% of all numbers in
[0,Inf) would be in [Inf/10,Inf), also reducing to the range
[Inf,Inf). For tha