math.inf

Full name
math.inf
Library
math
Syntax

math.inf

Description

math.inf represents the positive infinitive real number. The result is equivalent to float ("inf") .

Parameters

math.inf does not accept arguments.

Result

math.inf returns a real number.

Examples

Let's confirm, first of all, the type of the returned result:

type(math.inf)

float

We see that, indeed, it is a real number.

Let's now see the output of this attribute:

print(math.inf)

inf

We can confirm that the result is considered an infinite value with the math.isinf function:

math.isinf(math.inf)

True

Let's now confirm that this attribute returns a value equivalent to float("inf") :

float("inf") == math.inf

True

Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/19/2021 - 12:07