From: hadley wickham <h.wickham@...>
Date: 2006-07-23T16:38:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Infinity

> Others have answered the main question here but it's worth noting for
> the future that just because it says infinity doesn't mean a constant
> exists with that name. Check this out:

Yes, but a lot of languages provide some way of accessing the
"constants" that represent special floating point numbers: Inf, -Inf
and NaN

Hadley