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by Eric Lippert via Fabulous Adventures In Coding on 10/15/2009 1:25:00 PM
User: Recently I found out about a peculiar behaviour concerning division by zero in floating point numbers in C#. It does not throw an exception, as with integer division, but rather returns an "infinity". Why is that?
Eric: As I've often said, "why" questions are difficult for me to answer. My first attempt at an answer to a "why" question is usually "because that's what the specification says to do"; this time is no different. The C# specification says to do that in section 4.1.6.
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