Why does python break IEEE 754 for 1.0/0.0 and 0.0/0.0?

[Michael Hudson]

Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> writes:

> I've read over and over that Python leaves floating point
> issues up to the underlying platform.  

Please read the conversation Tim and I are having in the "Re:
math.nroot [was Re: A brief question.]" elsewhere in this same
newsgroup.

Cheers,
mwh

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