On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 10:19 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> While one may argue that writing `1e1000` is not an "arithmetic > operation", certainly it's certainly not "casting strings to floats", and > it's the simeplest way of producing `inf` in a pinch (in theory it's not > portable, but I think "in a pinch" means you don't care about that). > For 128-bit versions of Python you'd need 1e4933. For 256-bit, 1e78914. But those work fine on 32-bit or 64-bit also. I don't actually understand why Stephen made this claim about arithmetic > operations, since inf and nan exist *exactly* because arithmetic operations > may produce them. And you don't need to involve pi either, just `1e300 * > 1e300` does it. > Yeah, pi was irrelevant in my example. It's just something from my writing for hypothetical code that does stuff with 22/7 vs. with pi to see how different they are. -- 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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