NAN, INFINITY

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Hi!
When an arithmetical operation give Nan, and Infinity??
I have to study this for the exam?
Thank you in advance.

md ali

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Arithmetic operations on float or double can only give NaN and Negative_INFINITY and Positive_INFINITY. For example
double d = -10/0 gives Double.Negative_INFINITY and
double d = 10/0 gives Double.Positive_INFINITY
Hope this helps.
Muhammad Ali

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