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Subject: Re: Constants for better double edge case handling
From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds)

Hi Anatol,

Anatol Belski wrote:
> Producing INF. There's currently no explicit way to produce INF and NAN,
> whereby NAN is gettable with sqrt(-1).
>
> echo PHP_DBL_MAX*PHP_DBL_MAX, " ", -PHP_DBL_MAX*PHP_DBL_MAX;
> INF -INF

I'm not sure I understand this use-case. We already have the INF and NAN 
constants for obtaining those values, and the standard IEEE 754 
operations which produce these values are implemented (1/0 for INF, 0/0 
for NAN, etc.)

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Andrea Faulds
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