2 Feb
2015
2 Feb
'15
6:22 p.m.
On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 4:52:49 PM Chris Barker chris.barker@noaa.gov wrote:
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Güttler < guettliml@thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
Infinite what?
Integer
Well, inf is supported in floats because it is supported in the native machine double.
There's also the appeal to mathematics: integers and infinities are mutually exclusive.
By contrast, floats aren't numbers (by most definitions) to begin with, so there's no axiomatic basis to worry about breaking.
Ed Kellett