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[jira] [Closed] (MATH-433) Signal overflow by raising an exception

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-433?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Luc Maisonobe closed MATH-433.
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Closing an issue that was not a problem

> Signal overflow by raising an exception
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>                 Key: MATH-433
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-433
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Gilles
>            Priority: Minor
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> Referring to the ML thread (with subject "Factorial").
> Shouldn't Commons-Math always raise an exception when overflow is detected, including in cases where the Java language specification has decided to return infinity?
> It was argued, in the ML thread on "FunctionEvaluationException", that it was much better to raise an exception than to rely on special values to detect problems. I think that the same argument fits perfectly in this case.

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