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- Subject: Re: [BUG]0/1=?
- From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:07:10 +0100
Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> writes:
> On 22 Jan 2009, at 13:44, Linker wrote:
>> Lua 5.1.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2008 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> > =0/1
>> 0
>>
>> Why?
>
>
> Wow! Perl has the *exact* same bug:
>
> $ perl -le 'print 0/1'
> 0
>
> :)
>
> (0 divided by anything /is/ 0)
Uh no. 0 divided by any non-zero definite number is 0.
--
David Kastrup
