Infinite value

[Konrad Hinsen]

David YEUNG <dyeung at ust.hk> writes:

> Does python support Infinity value, like the 'Inf' in Matlab and C ?

No, and neither does C, at least not in a portable way. Inf and NaN
values are defined in IEEE arithmetic, which is now the most popular
standard, but not the only one. C does not require IEEE arithmetic
and therefore has no support for these values (you can't assign
Inf to a variable, for example). Since Python is written in portable
C, it can't do any better.
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