[issue6675] inf == inf (wrong IEEE 754 behaviour)

[Tim Peters]

Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> added the comment:

+inf == +inf, and -inf == -inf, are required by the 754 standard. 
However, +inf - +inf, and -inf - -inf, are required (by the same
standard) to signal invalid operation and, if that signal is masked (as
it is in Python), to return a NaN.  Then NaN == x is false for any value
of x (including a NaN).

OTOH, +inf != -inf, +inf - -inf == +inf, and -inf - +inf == -inf.

Current versions of Python implement all of that.

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