Turn off ZeroDivisionError?

[Steve Holden]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2:35 pm, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> There are an uncountable number of infinities, all different.
> 
> If you're talking about infinite cardinals or ordinals in set theory,
> then yes.  But that hardly seems relevant to using floating-point as a
> model for the doubly extended real line, which has exactly two
> infinities.
> 
True enough, but aren't they of indeterminate magnitude? Since infinity 
== infinity + delta for any delta, comparison for equality seems a 
little specious.

regards
  Steve
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