I thought that this was already released in LC 9.0.5
https://livecode-blogger.blogspot.com/2019/05/livecode-905-released.html
I sure what the use case is for infinity never mind ‘beyond’.
Martin
> On Jul 29, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> In the v9.6.1RC1 Rel
The bug list is infinite, ergo, all others are secondary to this one.
;)
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On July 29, 2020 6:13:39 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode
wrote:
On 7/29/20 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wro
On 7/29/20 5:31 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
This change first appeared in 9.5 DP 1, so it isn’t really new.
Right. I don't think anyone accused this change of popping up in the
latest release though.
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This change first appeared in 9.5 DP 1, so it isn’t really new.
Sent from my iPad
> On Jul 29, 2020, at 7:12 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 7/29/20 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> Now you can do:
>> local tMin, tThisResult
>> put infinity into tMin
>> repeat
On 7/29/20 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote:
Now you can do:
local tMin, tThisResult
put infinity into tMin
repeat for each element tElement in tList
-- perform some computation on tElement to get tThisResult
put min(tMin, tThisResult) into tMin
end repeat
Well, yes, that's c
I wonder if I can persuade the team to let me add a constant for the first
uncountable strongly inaccessible cardinal.
Regarding use-cases, I like the following one which is implicit in the
above observations about comparisons between infinity and integers.
Previously I would do the following a lo
On 29/07/2020 20:17, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Jul 29, 2020, at 12:08 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>
wrote:
Any number compared to positive infinity (other than itself) *will*
be less than it.
Bah,
*ℵ*_2 > floating point infinity (which is *ℵ*_1 )
On 7/29/20 12:17 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
Bah,
ℵ2> floating point infinity (which is ℵ1)
Outside of the axiom of choice (or actually even with it) that's not
something provable. OTOH, Kant's proofs of aleph null and aleph one are
brilliant.
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On 7/29/20 12:08 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
On 29/07/2020 18:57, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
In the v9.6.1RC1 Release Notes there's this:
Infinity constant
The constant infinity has been added to the language in this release.
As a result, theunquoted literal i
On Jul 29, 2020, at 12:08 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Any number compared to positive infinity (other than itself) *will* be less
> than it.
Bah,
ℵ2> floating point infinity (which is ℵ1)
(I took that class from Halmos himself . . .)
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On 29/07/2020 18:57, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
In the v9.6.1RC1 Release Notes there's this:
Infinity constant
The constant infinity has been added to the language in this release.
As a result, theunquoted literal infinity is now reserved. Any
existing uses of it should
In the v9.6.1RC1 Release Notes there's this:
Infinity constant
The constant infinity has been added to the language in this release.
As a result, theunquoted literal infinity is now reserved. Any
existing uses of it should be quoted, as otherwiseit will resolve to
the floating poin
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