[Chicken-janitors] #672: CR: Division by inexact zero results in infinity (or nan) as per IEEE 754

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#672: CR: Division by inexact zero results in infinity (or nan) as per IEEE 754
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 Reporter:  sjamaan                     |       Owner:       
     Type:  defect                      |      Status:  new  
 Priority:  major                       |   Milestone:  4.8.0
Component:  core libraries              |     Version:  4.7.x
 Keywords:  numbers, flonums, IEEE 754  |  
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 Current behaviour in Chicken core AND the numbers egg is not
 IEEE754-compliant (afaik):

 {{{
 (/  1.0 0.0) => error: division by zero
 (/ -1.0 0.0) => error: division by zero
 (/  0.0 0.0) => error: division by zero
 }}}

 Should this be changed to return +inf.0, -inf.0 and +nan.0, respectively?

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/672>
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