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> if your calculation returns Inf, it means that your program is wrong

In my own programs, e.g. working with rational approximations or more general functions which are meromorphic in big parts of their domain possibly with branch cuts, or representing the sphere using the stereographic projection, Inf is a commonly expected and entirely correct result, either of intermediate calculations or of final results, and is also a commonly expected program input. In my experience looking at other people's code it is relatively common for Inf to be a perfectly reasonable result of numerical calculations. In some contexts, underflow resulting in 0 or overflow resulting in Inf is a more precise result than 1.000000000000000. It all depends what your numbers represent and what you are trying to compute.

(In some programs, it is even fine and ordinary to expect 0/0 or Inf/Inf resulting in NaN in intermediate computations, though these typically need to be checked for and special-cased so they can be recomputed to get the correct non-NaN but possibly Inf result.)



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