[Python-ideas] Infinite in Python (not just in datetime)

[Ed Kellett]

On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 4:52:49 PM Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Thomas Güttler <
> guettliml at 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
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