On 2014-03-05, Chris Kaynor <ckay...@zindagigames.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Steven D'Aprano < > steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> At one time, Euler summed an infinite series and got -1, from which he >> concluded that -1 was (in some sense) larger than infinity. I don't know >> what justification he gave, but the way I think of it is to take the >> number line from -∞ to +∞ and then bend it back upon itself so that there >> is a single infinity, rather like the projective plane only in a single >> dimension. If you start at zero and move towards increasingly large >> numbers, then like Buzz Lightyear you can go to infinity and beyond: >> >> 0 -> 1 -> 10 -> 10000 -> ... ∞ -> ... -10000 -> -10 -> -1 -> 0 >> > > This makes me think that maybe the universe is using ones or two complement > math (is there a negative zero?)...
If the Universe (like most all Python implementations) is using IEEE-754 floating point, there is. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.com RECOVERY!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list