Re: [pure-lang-users] Yet another quirk with MinGW

[Eddie R. <er...@bm...>]

On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 12:16 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Eddie Rucker scripsit:
> 
> > Most of the time I'd agree, but I still think log 0 => -inf sucks big
> > time. 
> 
> You have to remember what -inf and 0.0 actually mean: respectively
> "a negative number too small to represent" and "a positive number too
> close to zero to represent."  And indeed, if you take the log of a number
> too close to zero to represent, such as 1/(10^10^10) you will indeed
> get a number too small to represent.

You are right for 0.0. Yep, we have to use the |a-b| < epsilon
definition for equality. However, for the integer 0 and the rational 0%
1, shouldn't log 0 be undefined?

e.r.