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Author Keith.Randall
Recipients Keith.Randall
Date 2014-02-07.18:44:35
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>>> 1e200*1e200
inf
>>> 1e200**2
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OverflowError: (34, 'Numerical result out of range')

Shouldn't floating-point operations overflow to inf, not generate exceptions?
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