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Nope, I'd disagree. Zero isn't an approximation of some epsilon, it's really just zero. It makes sense for the output sign to match the input sign.

• gowld 8y ago
  What is the sign of 0? It's 0.
  • dahart 8y ago
    Parent was talking about the sign of the numerator. But... zero in IEEE 754 representation has a meaningful sign bit. 1/-0 = -inf.
  • GlitchMr 8y ago
    Or as IEEE 754 sees it (you can try this in your JavaScript REPL). >> 1 / 0 Infinity >> 1 / -0 -Infinity