Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0208130734360.25373-100000@gannet.stats>
Date: 2002-08-13T06:42:32Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: division by zero
In-Reply-To: <200208121436.57949.andys@neptuneinc.org>
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Andrew Schuh wrote:
> Why does 1/0 return Inf? Shouldn't this be returning NaN, NA, or something
> similar?
It's as defined in the IEC60559 standard for computer arithmetic, to shich
your computer's FPU is apparently complying.
--
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self)
1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272860 (secr)
Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html
Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe"
(in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch
_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._