1/0 = 0 - Hackdot

Re:1/0 = 0 by jeremyjh on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:22AM (#17739407)

You can check for 0 and throw in those cases, and then propagate the error path appropriately. And as they've already said in this thread, they will be providing a checked arithmetic in the standard library to do that for you.

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Re:1/0 = 0 by Giroflex on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:31AM (#17739434)

Well, sometimes the average is 0, e.g. (-2 + 2)/2.

And the whole point is that this is meant to catch unforeseen interactions as soon as possible. If you add a check it's no longer unforeseen, and it may easily slip the programmer's mind.

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Re:1/0 = 0 by seandougall on Saturday August 11, 2018 @01:19PM (#17740584)

If I'm not mistaken, jeremyjh was referring to checking for 0 in the denominator, not the numerator.

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