[Gambas-user] Infinities and division

Benoit Minisini benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org
Tue Nov 29 15:23:51 CET 2022


Le 29/11/2022 à 15:14, BB a écrit :
> I'm not real good on infinite mathematics but
> 
> 	If Abs((.Actual - .Predicted) / .Predicted) > 0.005 Then
> 
> throws a "Division by zero (26)" error when .Actual = -Inf and 
> .Predicted = (a normal real like) 63.665584
> 
> Is that correct? Because to me it's a very misleading error.
> 
> regards
> 
> bruce
> 

Indeed. It's because "/" raises "Division by zero" as soon as it does 
not return a real number.

-- 
Benoît Minisini.



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