Re: Divide by Zero

Jon Skeet <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:41:04 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dotnet.clr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Kevin Jones wrote:
> I always understood this to be a feature of Intel processors.

I think it's more that it's a feature of IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic.

As for why it doesn't happen for integer values - which current integer
values would you (i.e. anyone) want to lose in order to give room for
infinity?

Jon

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