Re: Infinity (to the nearest integer)

"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid-M/[email protected]> wrote:

Suppose we do want to produce NaN. Why do we need integer NaNs
> distinct from float NaNs?
>

Because the underlying representation is fundamentally different.

Personally, I don't think integer BigNums make a lot of sense. Distinguished
infinities only make sense when the representation has bounded magnitude

shap

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