From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Mon May 12 04:06:48 2003
Subject: creating Inf*i
From: "withaar" <octave at wylch dot fastmail dot fm>
To: "octave-help" <help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 10:05:11 +0100

Hi all,

I need to create an imaginary infinity number. These methods don't work:

a = complex(0,Inf)
a = 1i*Inf

Both methods multiply (0+i)*Inf and the result is NaN+Infi because 0*Inf
is undefined. This, however, works:

a = (1i*realmax)*2

Is there a better way to do this?


cheers,

Willem



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