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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients ethan.furman, mark.dickinson, vstinner
Date 2015-01-07.16:58:50
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> float("-inf") and -float("inf") have exactly the same IEEE 754 representation

Indeed: there's only one negative infinity (and only one positive infinity) in IEEE 754 binary64 format.
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