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<<On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:39:36 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said:

> Is there any reason for doing this other than so we can emulate
> linux's bog^H^H^H nifty ability to divide by zero?

The fact that the IEEE standard says this is the default state.

-GAWollman

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