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How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)?
The ubiquitous IEEE floating-point standard defines two numbers to represent zero, the positive and the negative zeros. You also have the positive and negative infinity. If you compute the inverse of the positive zero, you get the positive infinity. If you compute the inverse of the negative zero, you get the negative…
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Software EngineeringMath & Algorithms2021
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Mar 5, 2021 | How does your programming language handle “minus zero” (-0.0)? by ibobev | 126 | 207 |
