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These values are not extreme. They are '''not''' numbers, and of course, not floating point. Technically they are called ''ideals'' and used to make operations like +,-,*,/ closed. Another, often better, example of ideals are numeric exceptions. They too close operations. For example, + is closed in the set of real numbers filled up by ''overflow-exception'' ideal. --[[User:Dmitry-kazakov|Dmitry-kazakov]] 21:37, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
:Hi Dmitry, I have never heard of 'Ideals' with respect to floating point; and indeed, it is not in the quoted reference [http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic]. After reading the reference again, it seems to call them 'Special Quantities' which would lead to a task title something like "Special quantities in floating point values" which would read better than say "Ideal values in floating point values". If, however, ideal is a common term amongst floating point specialists, then maybe we should use the latter? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 21:52, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
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