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in reply to Infinity recognized as number

Thanks all. The point is, Perl prints out the Infinity number as "Inf" (FreeBSD) or "inf" (linux). What I learned is that the string "Inf" is just a string.

Now I'm using $inf=10**10**10

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Re^2: Infinity recognized as number
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2013 at 22:37 UTC
    FWIW, perl 5.16.1 :) 
    $ perl -e " print 1 + Infinity "
1.#INF
$ perl -e " print 1 + inf"
1.#INF
$ perl -e " print  int inf"
1.#INF
$

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