From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2003-02-19T05:54:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Infinity -- Float

Thanks.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:45:42PM +0900, Mauricio Fern�ndez wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:51:47AM +0900, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> > It seems that Ruby has a concept of infinity:
> > 
> > >> 1.0/0
> > => Infinity
> > >> (1.0/0).class 
> > => Float
> > 
> > I wish to return this value, but I can't quite figure out what Ruby's 
> > symbol for Infinity is.  I guess that I could write:
> > 
> > my_method
> >     ...
> >     return 1.0/0
> > end
> 
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/61840
>  
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