What's wrong with 1e1000?
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:51 AM David Mertz mertz@gnosis.cx wrote:
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:48 AM Stephen J. Turnbull
inf and nan only exist in Python the
language (including builtins) via casting strings to floats (there are
no arithmetic operations that produce them).
import sys; sys.version
'3.8.3 (default, May 19 2020, 18:47:26) \n[GCC 7.3.0]'
from math import pi as π exp = 2**9 a = (22/7) ** exp1 b = π ** exp1 a
4.2679182652117097e+254
a * a
inf
(a*a)/(b*b)
nan
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