[Python-ideas] Infinite in Python (not just in datetime) (original) (raw)
Ed Kellett edk141 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 19:22:07 CET 2015
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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.
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