Floaating point systems using IEEE convention
take care of the problem of infinity:
a special pattern of bits represent the infinity
a number greater than any other floating point value.
It has a sign too.
IEEE compliant floating point library / processor
observe the following rules
infty + x = infty
x / 0 -> infty
etc
and 1/(1+x) = 1 if x==infty
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Every elementary programming lectures
talk about numeration, number representation and
the inifinite problem.
Daniel Frerejacque
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dan### [at] acm org
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