Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 01:51:57 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Setting floating point variable as infinite References: Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2012 07:52:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87r4whtboa.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:pkeD0vhMqyINUhzNTkwiegJ+n4g= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 5 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-zra9Gqp2GNMswDIx6mmGdnIyn4v3E3/Q+jz/+Czz1jruZM4swdC4BAwjKzmMd/yj3IdxtKoBj2miE/T!OzqbMxU9WS23O8qPTT6H+UdbPOcBR0SdcNA4ekN/aE4YjZDVCHXqy+HksAOuQHw9GBmWww== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1173 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c++:15038 Leigh Johnston writes: > Yes there is a better way, use: std::min_element ... but don't forget to handle the empty set case.