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Re: matrix division [message #60537 is a reply to message #60444]

Fri, 23 May 2008 13:41

Kenneth P. Bowman
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<27c2f921-f4ce-4b62-96e5-9a9507dc378c@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
"edward.s.meinel@aero.org" <meinel@aero.org> wrote:

> On May 22, 4:15 pm, "Kenneth P. Bowman" <k-bow...@null.edu> wrote:
>>
>> All of these variations are clever, and I can see why you might
>> want to do this in special circumstances, but usually when I
>> divide by zero, I want to know about. A floating-point exception
>> and Inf work for me.
>>
>> Cheers, Ken
>
> Exactamundo, Ken. This provides the user with a choice -- if the user
> wants to know about the zero-divide, just do c=a/b; if there are known
> special cases, use the clever solution.

Right, people should not assume that this is the right thing
to do in every case. I think in most cases users really want
to generate a floating-point exception when they divide by
zero.

Ken

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		matrix division By: adam.ranson on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:29
		Re: matrix division By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 23 May 2008 13:41
		Re: matrix division By: David Fanning on Fri, 23 May 2008 12:18
		Re: matrix division By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 23 May 2008 11:02
		Re: matrix division By: Jean H. on Fri, 23 May 2008 10:23
		Re: matrix division By: Vince Hradil on Fri, 23 May 2008 10:06
		Re: matrix division By: Jean H. on Fri, 23 May 2008 09:41
		Re: matrix division By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:13
		Re: matrix division By: adam.ranson on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:47
		Re: matrix division By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Thu, 22 May 2008 13:15
		Re: matrix division By: Jean H. on Thu, 22 May 2008 12:28
		Re: matrix division By: David Fanning on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:45
		Re: matrix division By: Rich Younger on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:22
		Re: matrix division By: Rich Younger on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:13
		Re: matrix division By: edward.s.meinel@aero. on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:47
		Re: matrix division By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 22 May 2008 09:19
		Re: matrix division By: David Fanning on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:48

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