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Re:1/0 = 0 by tobinfricke on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:43PM (#17736590)
> Defining it as 0 at least means floating point numbers are (presumably) closed under arithmetic operations, which could be handy.

They already are closed. Floating point includes Inf and Nan for that reason. :-)

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Re:1/0 = 0 by repsilat on Friday August 10, 2018 @04:58PM (#17736688)
Ah, of course. Still, this definition gets you to something stricter still -- the "things that normal people think of as numbers" are closed under those operations. (Depending on what happens for overflow and 0/0, I guess.)
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