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What's `#INF`?

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Issue type
Documentation
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Clearly specified
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Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

The issue points to en/datatypes/float.adoc; start by reading the Float range and overflow wording there. Check how the documentation currently presents special forms, then update the referenced text so the #INF and #NAN forms and overflow notation are formally documented. Done means the page accurately covers all requested forms.

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Description

In https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/datatypes/float.adoc

Float values span a range from -1.7E+308 to +1.7E+308 and return #INF on overflow.

Should be 1.#INF.
Also 1.#NAN and 1.#INF special forms must be formally announced somewhere there.

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