Infinity not quite so infinite

[PhilipLeitch]

When is infinity not infinite? When it equals 1*10^307

Unless it is multiplied by an imaginary number of course....

Geez...


Philip
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[TomGutman]

Yeah, I noticed (and noted) that earlier, just going throught he help. Just one of the bad things (among many) they copied from the old MC, which had ∞ defined before IEEE standards were in place. You'd think that with a supposedly totally new implementation they would fix that and use proper IEEE arithmetic throughout (including a proper ∞) -- but nooooo.
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[StuartBruff]

On 8/17/2009 2:56:01 AM, Tom_Gutman wrote:
== You'd think that with a supposedly totally new
implementation they would fix that and use proper
IEEE arithmetic throughout (including a proper ∞) -
- but nooooo.

But it looks cool, dude! Maybe we've got a new
mathematical concept here that people just aren't
waking up to - aleph_-1, the cardinality
of the set of all numbers less than 'why would
anyone want a number that big?'

Stuart

[PhilipLeitch]

I like the way you think.

Philip
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