What's wrong with 1e1000? On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 11:51 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SI55GC4JYNC6XMVJRNT7SBVWHDIHRALK/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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