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On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:41:54 -0600, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:45:23AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 30 March 2011:
> > > 
> > > We were speaking in analogies here, where the car *is* the operating
> > > system -- so I think if it said "1/0" it would be more accurate to
> > > say the "car" would crash.
> > 
> > It's uncertain whether the car would crash, or run infinitely.
> 
> Mathematically, that seems to be the case, but implementations tend to
> result in crashy behavior -- or, quite often, raise exceptions.

We're talking about a car. It doesn't raise exceptions, it
simply explodes! :-)



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