gpointarithmetic">Floating-point arithmetic</h6>
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   OCaml's floating-point numbers follow the
   IEEE 754 standard, using double precision (64 bits) numbers.
   Floating-point operations never raise an exception on overflow,
   underflow, division by zero, etc.  Instead, special IEEE numbers
   are returned as appropriate, such as <code class="code">infinity</code> for <code class="code">1.0 /. 0.0</code>,
   <code class="code">neg_infinity</code> for <code class="code">-1.0 /. 0.0</code>, and <code cl