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Id: 63335
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Math-BigInt-FastCalc
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com
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Bug Information
Severity: Normal
Broken in: 0.24
Fixed in: (no value)

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  Thu Nov 25 10:33:41 2010 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: [perl #41192] numify of BigInt overflows incorrectly
This bug is to track the Math::BigInt::FastCalc part of the following issue: [perl #41192] numify of BigInt overflows incorrectly http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-01/msg00172.html For example, the following code should return a Perl scalar numerical nan, but should return a Perl scalar numerical infinity: $ perl -MMath::BigInt=lib,FastCalc -lwe 'print Math::BigInt -> new("1e1000") -> numify' nan
  Sat Feb 05 17:04:22 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Ticket deleted
  Sat Feb 05 17:04:24 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'deleted' to 'open'
  Sat Feb 05 17:05:32 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Fixed in version 0.25.
  Sat Feb 05 17:05:33 2011 peter.john.acklam [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'