Do Computer programming languages assign values to Infinity like 9999999?

Question

give examples

Answer 1

There are a few special values in floating point standards. A lot are nAn (not a number).

Answer 2

In math infinity == undefined and so the same axiom holds true in computer science. Infinity is a special concept that says there are other answers for any given problem, not that the wrong assumption is being utilized.

Answer 3

The largest number that can be stored in an 32 bit integer is 2,147,483,647

A much larger value can be stored in long values



There is no such thing as infinity computer storage

1512,235,234,213,123 terabytes of data is still 0% of infinity, your computer would implode into a blackhole if it could store infinite storage. (Not really) but it probably doesn't work how you think

Answer 4

No, the area that values are stored in have a limit and infinity would simply be the maximum allowed value.



So if the maximum value allowed is 1 million, infinity would equal 1 million.

If the maximum value allowed is 1 billion, infinity would equal 1 billion.

Answer 5

Yep infinity is a special number in floating point

it is used in

IEEE Standard 754Floating Point Numbers

look here:



http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html