On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 8:58 AM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
What's wrong with 1e1000?

As a spelling of "infinity" generically, or just as an example of an "arithmetic operation"?

On the latter, I didn't use that just because it feels sort of like a "cheat" rather than an "operation."  I.e. my longer example started out with some "reasonable" numbers, but wound up tripping into inf and nan.
 
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