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[Ben Laurie]

"Mark S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> At 01:08 PM 8/19/00 , Ben Laurie wrote:
> >I can live with that! I guess there's a certain sense in saying that if
> >it is comparable, then its a number (so infinity is a number). OTOH, if
> >I can't do arithmetic on it...
> 
> But you can, for some definition of arithmetic:
> 
>     ? def Inf := 1.0/0.0
>     # value: Infinity
> 
>     ? Inf + 1.0
>     # value: Infinity

? Inf - Inf

??

Cheers,

Ben.

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