Re: Short-circuit Logic

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Date	2013-05-29 00:01 +1000
Subject	Re: Short-circuit Logic
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2298.1369749670.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> py> y = 1e17 + x  # x is not zero, so y should be > 1e17
> py> 1/(1e17 - y)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero

You don't even need to go for 1e17. By definition:

>>> sys.float_info.epsilon+1.0==1.0
False
>>> sys.float_info.epsilon+2.0==2.0
True

Therefore the same can be done with 2 as you did with 1e17.

>>> y = 2 + sys.float_info.epsilon
>>> 1/(2-y)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#182>", line 1, in <module>
    1/(2-y)
ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero

Of course, since we're working with a number greater than epsilon, we
need to go a little further, but we can still work with small numbers:

>>> x = sys.float_info.epsilon * 2   # Definitely greater than epsilon
>>> y = 4 + x
>>> 1/(4-y)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#191>", line 1, in <module>
    1/(4-y)
ZeroDivisionError: float division by zero


ChrisA

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Short-circuit Logic Ahmed Abdulshafy <abdulshafy@gmail.com> - 2013-05-26 04:11 -0700
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        Re: Short-circuit Logic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-29 00:01 +1000
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                Re: Short-circuit Logic Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 17:09 +1000
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                Re: Short-circuit Logic Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-05-31 09:20 -0400
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