On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 6:48 AM Stephen J. Turnbull > inf and nan only exist in Python the > language (including builtins) via casting strings to floats (there are > no arithmetic operations that produce them).
>>> import sys; sys.version '3.8.3 (default, May 19 2020, 18:47:26) \n[GCC 7.3.0]' >>> from math import pi as π >>> exp = 2**9 >>> a = (22/7) ** exp1 >>> b = π ** exp1 >>> a 4.2679182652117097e+254 >>> a * a inf >>> (a*a)/(b*b) nan --- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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