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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:03:27 -0600
Subject: Re: Why `divmod(float('inf'), 1) == (float('nan'), float('nan'))`
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> And while it's
> conceivable to define that infinity divided by anything is infinity,
> and infinity modulo anything is zero, that raises serious issues of
> primality and such; I'm not sure that that would really help anything.

I missed that this point was already discussed. Can you elaborate on
the "serious issues of primality and such"? Since infinity is not a
natural number, its primality is undefined, so I don't see the issue
here.