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unexpected decimal.InvalidOperation - Skaperen - Dec-25-2021
when doing
decimal.Decimal('-inf')+decimal.Decimal('+inf') i got decimal.InvalidOperation raised. i was expecting to get Decimal('0'). there are a few operations on infinity that normal arithmetic allows such as inf-inf -> 0 and 0*inf -> 0 both of which the decimal.Decimal class does not allow. is there a reason for this or is it just up to whoever implemented decimal.Decimal?
RE: unexpected decimal.InvalidOperation - casevh - Dec-25-2021
The behavior you are seeing is part of IEEE-754 standard. The easiest chart I found is in the "Special Operations" section of https://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html.
The specification that defines the
decimal library is available at:http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decarith.html
The behavior is documented in section 7 Exceptional Conditions.
RE: unexpected decimal.InvalidOperation - Skaperen - Dec-25-2021
thanks for the info. i'll leave my opinions for another place and time.