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Rational Infinities
- To: navajo!Common-Lisp%sail@navajo.stanford.edu
- Subject: Rational Infinities
- From: edsel!bhopal!jonl@navajo.stanford.edu (Jon L White)
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 87 22:34:55 PST
- Cc: bhopal!jonl@navajo.stanford.edu
Some CL implementations don't use IEEE floating point, and typically
don't have any way to represent floating-point infinity. Would there
be any negative consequences of allowing forms like
1/0 and -1/0
to be legitimate ratios?
-- JonL --