From: "Marcel Molina Jr." <marcel@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T04:24:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity

On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 04:22:37AM +0900, hadley wickham wrote:
> irb(main):084:0> (-1.0/0.0)
> => -Infinity
> irb(main):086:0> (1.0/0.0)
> => Infinity
> 
> but
> 
> irb(main):087:0> Infinity
> NameError: uninitialized constant Infinity
>        from (irb):87
>        from :0
> 
> is it possible to directly access/create a float representing positive
> or negative infinity?

Infinity = 1.0/0

(N.B. Doesn't work on all platforms.)

marcel
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