MEP - Change Mathcad numerical infinity to IEEE 754 Infinity

[StuartBruff]

Mathcad Enhancement Proposal:  Change Mathcad's numerical representation of infinity to the IEEE 754 floating-point standard.

When dealing with large numbers, representing infinity as 10^307 can lead to numerical errors and yield ambiguous or unreadable results.

Note: Python math, NumPy, Mathematica and Matlab all give correct results.

I don't know why 2^1020 is allowable, but 2^n, where n:=1020, raises an error.

Stuart

(Numerical ∞ = 10³⁰⁷ has annoyed me since Mathsoft Mathcad days.  At least change ∞ to ⧜ (U+29DC Incomplete Infinity)

[StuartBruff]

Interesting.

Math Result display set to "General".

Stuart

[LucMeekes]

The 'Infinity' unit was introduced in Prime 6. Up to and including Prime 5 you'd get:

But the funny behaviour with 2^1020 was already present in Prime 2.

Success!
Luc

[StuartBruff]

Thanks, Luc.

Perhaps PTC can fix that problem at the same time as they implement an IEEE 754 Infinity.

Stuart