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Re:Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go by xiaq on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:41AM (#8092874)
The 0 is a positive one.

    > / 1 -0
    -Inf
BTW this is just IEEE floating point.
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Re:Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go by bnegreve on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:50AM (#8092887)
Ah yes indeed [1], I didn't know.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point#Exception_h...

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