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Re:In Erlang/OTP 27, +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to... by arcticbull on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:12AM (#35884596)
IEEE754 has a separate +Infinity and -Infinity to go along with SNaN and QNaN.

For instance:

- as parent said 1/0 is Inf.

- as parent said 1/(-0) and log(0) is -Inf.

- sqrt(-1) and 0/0 is NaN.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-...

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