On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 10:44:52 -0400
Doug Currie <doug.cur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Except by the rules of IEEE (as I understand them)
> >
> > -0.0 < 0.0 is FALSE, so -0.0 is NOT "definitely left of true zero"
> >
> 
> Except that 0.0 is also an approximation to zero, not "true zero."

Sure, because floating point numbers are approximations of real
numbers.  

> Consider that 1/-0.0 is -inf whereas 1/0.0 is +int

Consider too that both are mathematical nonsense.  Just reading over
the documentation, it seems it's also detectable nonsense: fenv(3)
describes FE_DIVBYZERO.  

--jkl
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