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Use Infinities.jl for infinity #439

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dpsanders opened this issue Feb 15, 2021 · 3 comments
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Use Infinities.jl for infinity #439

dpsanders opened this issue Feb 15, 2021 · 3 comments

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https://github.com/JuliaMath/Infinities.jl/
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lucaferranti commented May 27, 2021 •
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Wouldn't this make handling types quite harder? What would be the type of say [1.0, ∞]? It could not be Interval[Float64} and it might be a little strange and prone to instability that the type of the interval depends on whether it's bounded or unbounded?

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No because you can automatically convert Infinities.∞ to Inf

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Kolaru commented Jul 24, 2023

Discussed in triage, infinities in IA follow the prescription of the standard for what the floating point Inf means, which has no higher meaning.

For specific flavor, this idea could be brought back.

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