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24 Apr 2024 19:19:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Divide by negative zero  
From: clipka
Date: 28 Oct 2018 06:38:39
Message: <5bd591af$1@news.povray.org>
Am 26.10.2018 um 20:13 schrieb Kenneth:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>> Am 26.10.2018 um 05:41 schrieb Anthony D. Baye:
>>> It seems to me that the engine used to throw an error when this happened...
>> ...
>>> Version 3.8.0-alpha.9606898.unofficial
>>
>> That's on Linux, I presume?
>>
>> POV-Ray does produce a warning if the second operand compares /equal to
>> zero/.
>> [etc]
>>
> 
> For what it's worth, in POV-Ray for Windows v3.7.1 beta 9, I see the same
> results as Anthony's original image-- the misplaced orange dot and the missing
> hexagons at the top.

Maybe the value isn't even exactly negative zero - I do get a "Division 
by zero" warning with all the POV-Ray for Windows binaries I've 
currently within close reach whenever I try to divide by exact negative 
zero.


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