Those of us who wrote for PowerPC may recall the architecture returned 0 for integer division by 0. It's been done before and, in my opinion, was a good trade off between mathematical purity and pragmatism. The vast majority of the code I write follows the pattern result = (denominator != 0) ? (numerator / denominator) : 0.
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Those of us who wrote for PowerPC may recall the architecture returned 0 for integer division by 0. It's been done before and, in my opinion, was a good trade off between mathematical purity and pragmatism. The vast majority of the code I write follows the pattern result = (denominator != 0) ? (numerator / denominator) : 0.