It's not an error to divide by zero per the IEEE floating point specification, and you'll find the same behavior in most modern languages: http://en.wikipedia.

It's not an error to divide by zero per the IEEE floating point specification, and you'll find the same behavior in most modern languages: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#In_computer_arithmetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero#In_computer_ar...