+1 One could also go further and raise a PlusInfinitiyException or a MinusInfinityException and handle them correctly.
On Monday, January 6, 2014 5:39:56 PM UTC+1, Gregory Bard wrote: > > Perhaps we could get the best of both worlds? > > We could throw a "divergent integral/sum exception" (that can be two > exceptions or one, depending > on how you look at what an integral really is...) > > This way, the calculus student would see the words "divergent integral" > and know what it means. > > However, the high performance programmer can catch the exception and do... > something... with it. > > Thoughts? > ---Greg > > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:12:58 AM UTC-6, Vibhav Pant wrote: >> >> Sage currently handles divergant integrals/sums by raising a ValueError, >> wouldn't it be nice if a more user friendly output (like infinity or >> printing "divergant integral") could be used instead of raising an >> exception? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
