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o Re: 0.0 / 0.0 = -NAN ?wolfgang kern

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 by: wolfgang kern - Sun, 1 May 2022 10:10 UTC

On 30/04/2022 17:31, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> When exception masks are all enabled to stop the processor from throwing floating point exceptions the following calculation produces a somewhat strange result:
>
> 0.0 / 0.0 = -nan

[...]
divide any number by zero is prohibited by math laws anyway because it
cannot produce other result then philosophical plus/minus infinitive.
And also 0/0 is not 1 of course.
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wolfgang

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