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Re: Re: My ideas about infinity in Scheme (revised)

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======= At 2005-05-21, 09:21:47 Ken Dickey wrote: =======

>But computational infinities are not really numbers.  They are special markers 
>for places where limits of the number system are exceeded.

No. Even in a Scheme implementation that support arbitrary big number, there
can be need for infinity (just as in mathematics). 

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Chongkai Zhu