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From: jbn@wdl1.UUCP (jbn )
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Subject: Re: more sun and vax diffs - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 7-Sep-84 21:24:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  7 21:24:45 1984
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wdl1!jbn    Sep  7 13:57:00 1984

    What are you complaining about?  Log10 of zero IS infinity.  The
SUN has the right answer.  The VAX is totally wrong.  There really is
a floating point value which represents infinity in IEEE floating point
notation, and that is what you get when you divide by zero.