infinity

C and Infinity Size Variable

How variable beyond "unsigned long long" size is represented in C or any programming language. Is there are variable type to represent Infinity? ...

Infinity Loop and user input as the termination

I have my code and it does go run to infinity. What I want is that if on the unix command window if the user inputs a ctrl C, I want the program to finish the current loop it in and then come out of the loop. So I want it to break, but I want it to finish the current loop. Is using ctrl C ok? Should I look to a different input? ...

What is the best way to check for infinity in a Perl module?

In one of my modules, I have to deal with the concept of infinity. To date, I have been using 9**9**9 as positive infinity, and this seems to work well, is fast, and seems to be what perl's internals use as infinity. However, things get a bit dicey if a user of my module decides to use one of the big number modules (like use bigint;)...

how can we compare whether the result of an arithmetic operation is NaN or infinity..??

double SampleInterval = (PopulationValue - valueOfSignItems) / (SampleSize - noOfSignItems); if my divisor = 0, sampleInterval wil bcom infinity and it will be = NaN if both dividend and divisor are = 0 i need to do my code when SampleInterval = infinity and in another context when SampleInterval = NaN. How it is possible..?? can any ...