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The post is not about whether this is a good choice for its users; the post is about whether there are nathematical objections to it. The author even writes that they don't agree with the engineering decision to define it like that, but they can't object with an appeal to mathematics. It lists three valid choices for handling division by zero and Pony picked one of them. My personal favorite is to shrink the domain but that's not supported in most languages and those that support it are often not meant for number crunching.


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