[issue23185] add inf and nan to math module

[STINNER Victor]

STINNER Victor added the comment:

>   Do we add a math.neginf, or somesuch, for float('-inf')?  Or just use -math.inf?

I would prefer to only add inf.

It looks like float("-inf") and -float("inf") have exactly the same IEEE 754 representation (at least on my x86_64 CPU):

>>> struct.pack("d", float("-inf")) == struct.pack("d", -float("inf"))
True

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nosy: +haypo

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