[Jprogramming] Overflow, underflow, floats

[Erling Hellenäs]

Hi all !

Here is part of the standard. Required exception handling. Things I 
discuss in my post. Is it implemented in J? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754#Exception_handling
The floating point standard is obviously used in environments where the 
users can not afford random results, so there must be solutions to the 
problems I mention, which we also can see in this wikipedia article.

Cheers,
Erling

Den 2017-09-20 kl. 16:27, skrev Erling Hellenäs:
> I hope others want to read my post even if Raul discards it as not 
> worthy of comments. /Erling
>
>
> Den 2017-09-20 kl. 12:25, skrev Raul Miller:
>> This isn't just J - this is the IEEE-754 floating point standard.
>>
>> It would be really nice if computers could deal with infinities,
>> instantly, at no cost. Sadly, though, that's not going to happen.
>>
>> FYI,
>>
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