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On 13.09.2016 at 23:38, Doc O'Leary wrote:

> For your reference, records indicate that 
> Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote:
> 
>> I think you've misunderstood the case being made.  It may well be
>> convenient to implement it this way, but my interest is in making the
>> function convenient to use.
> 
> It’d be damn convenient if it didn’t fabricate results that screw 
> up future calculations wouldn’t it?  What’s the average maximum 
> daily temperate for a month where hourly data couldn’t be collected 
> one day?  If you say -Infinity, you should never be allowed to work 
> at a job that uses numbers again.

Why should this result in -Inf?  If the data for one day would be
missing, there still would be data left for the other days.

-- 
Christoph M. Becker