more sun and vax diffs - (nf)

jbn jbn at wdl1.UUCP
Sat Sep 8 11:24:45 AEST 1984


#R:seismo:-281000:wdl1:17100005:000:272
wdl1!jbn    Sep  7 13:57:00 1984

    What are you complaining about?  Log10 of zero IS infinity.  The
SUN has the right answer.  The VAX is totally wrong.  There really is
a floating point value which represents infinity in IEEE floating point
notation, and that is what you get when you divide by zero.



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