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This constant has the value of IEEE single-float infinity. It is a legal floating-point value. In arithmetic operations, it produces infinities of appropriate sign and format (following standard floating-point coercion rules) or NaNs, but a finite number (in fact zero) only when divided into a finite number. See the linked discussion for more details.
Infinities like this one can result from normal arithmetic operations,
such as a division by zero in a function with types declared and
compiled so comp:trust-declarations-switch
is true,
but that same call run interpreted may instead signal an error.
See Floating-point infinities and NaNs, and
floating-point underflow and overflow in
implementation.htm. Also see
*negative-infinity-single*
,
*infinity-double*
,
*negative-infinity-double*
,
*nan-double*
, and
*nan-single*
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Created 2012.5.30.
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