From: Kedar Mhaswade <kedar.mhaswade@...>
Date: 2008-12-31T12:12:55+09:00
Subject: N00b question about Infinity and Float

Folks,

A new user. Please be kind. I have checked
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/74141#new, but could not find what I was
looking for.

See following irb session:

start

irb(main):004:0* google=10**100
=>
10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
irb(main):005:0> googleplex=10**google
(irb):5: warning: in a**b, b may be too big
=> Infinity
irb(main):006:0> google.class
=> Bignum
irb(main):007:0> googleplex.class
=> Float

end

This was nice! But, I expected googleplex.class to be BigNum. Is
Infinity a Float?

Why?

Thanks in advance,
Kedar
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