Re: [Chicken-users] Re: IEEE float arithmetic

[John Cowan]

Abdulaziz Ghuloum scripsit:

> Out of curiosity, why not simply do "f==1.0/0.0 || f==-1.0/0.0" to test
> if f is +inf.0/-inf.0?

Umm.  Too obvious, I guess.  I started working these out in
Chicken, where dividing by zero throws an exception, so I
wanted some other method.  But in C, of course, there's no
such issue.

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