[PD] 1 / 0 = 0?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

expr can give you inf/nans eventually, but it was not originally part of
pd's core

2018-05-24 13:43 GMT-03:00 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>:

> Many math objects in pd have protection against nan/inf, not only in the
> audio control. It is the official policy
>
> 2018-05-24 12:49 GMT-03:00 Martin Peach <chakekatzil at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Christof Ressi <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
>> wrote:
>>
>> there's no other sane way to handle division by 0 in the audio domain
>>> since the result must be a number and there are only two options: output 0
>>> or some ridiculously large number (which would be quite dangerous).
>>>
>>
>> Yes, but if you try division by a very small number close to zero you
>> still get very large numbers that audio hardware will clip to +-1; the
>> singularity at zero is weird.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
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