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On computers that comply with the IEEE 754-1985 standard for binary
representation of floating-point numbers, floating-point divisions of
positive numbers by zero yield Inf (positive infinity). On such
computers, this value is returned by #infty. On computers that
do not allow floating-point division by zero, #infty returns the
greatest representable float number, #max_float.
See also: #max_float.