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Floating point numbers represent the extended real set, where infinity exists. What is completely different from the integral numbers most computers use, on those division by zero is undefined.



Division by zero is still undefined in the extended reals. To define it you'd need something like the projective reals. But it doesn't matter; floating point numbers don't have a zero; they have two zeroes of different signs.




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