Dnia 00-09-28 Aley Keprt pisze: > So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer? > 0*anything=0 > infinite*anything=infinite > This implies that 0=infinite.
Well... 0 * anything = 0 only when this "anything" isn't infinite, and infinite * anything = infinite only when this "anything" isn't zero, so 0 * infinite = anything 0 / 0 = anything infinite / infinite = anything And by the way... Have someone thought about a calculator code (like RST #28 in ZX Spectrum) that could use a binary representation for "infinite" and "anything" and could return them as a calculation results, not generating "higher level" errors (crashes) like "division by zero" or "number too big"? This could make life simpler... We would get 6 new values: -1E-38 < "-zero" <= 0 <= "+zero" < 1E-38 "-infinite" < -1E38 < "-anything" <= 0 0 <= "+anything" < 1E38 < "+infinite" -- Yarek.
