Re: Divide by Zero

Frans Bouma <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:15 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.clr
Message-ID	<007d01c8785a$e4636c90$ad2a45b0$@nl>

> In a little more than a nutshell, why does the CLR only throw a divide by
> zero exception for integers?

        I think because, if I recall correctly, a floating point number is
always an approximation, so you can have a floating point value which seems 0
but actually isn't.

        Though for decimals, it should indeed...

                FB

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