On Friday 05 November 2004 14:57, Henning Thielemann wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Robert Dockins wrote: > I wonder why Infinity has a sign in IEEE floating processing, as well as > 0.
As regards Inf, this makes sense, because with +Inf and -Inf order is preserved. With one unsigned Inf nothing is really < or > than anything else. > To support this behaviour uniformly one would need a +0 or -0 offset > for each number, which would lead straightforward to non-standard analysis > ... It's worse: Since according to IEEE +0 is not equal to -0, atan2 is not a function! Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe