What's wrong with 1e1000?
On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:51 AM David Mertz
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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