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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 14 Sep 2004 18:20:01
Message: <ci7qp4$iac$1@chho.imagico.de>

Ryan Lamansky wrote:
> 
> 
> Yes.  The result of a 1.0/0.0 in IEEE floating point is 
> PositiveInfinity.  The math related to infinite values is interesting, 
> but doesn't break the algorithm in any way.

But it does not work on non-IEEE floating point systems.   The C 
language standards do not guarantee this to work like you expect it.

Christoph

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