What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0?

Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by tim333 on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:01PM (#20006043)

Well, in javascript 0/0 == NaN while 1/0 == Infinity.

An interesting thing is they have the value -0 so you can set a=-0 and 1/a returns -Infinity.

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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by strainer on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:22PM (#20006133)

This is not only javascripts behavior, it is the IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic which most modern hardware and software strictly adheres to.

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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by stOneskull on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:47PM (#20006985)

-0 is my favorite number

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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by dylan604 on Friday May 24, 2019 @07:35PM (#20006176)

This should be part of an update to the Destroy All Software's Wat video: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

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Re:What's the difference between 0/0 and 1/0? by garmaine on Friday May 24, 2019 @09:23PM (#20006574)

Except that is defined, standard IEEE 754 behavior and is true on nearly all programming languages.

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