What does INF evaluate to?

[Guy04]

Can someone further explain the special constant value INF.  In the help documents of Teststand it says that this is equivalent to an INF value in Visual C++, but I've never used an INF value in Visual C++. 

Thanks.

[Patrick_P.]

Hey Guy04,
The constant value INF is a representation of infinity.  This value will usually be returned if you are doing a mathematic operation that would actually return infinity.  For example in TestStand if you were to divide a numeric value by 0 and store that, the stored value would be INF.  If you are doing any kind of numeric operations with INF,such as numeric comparisons, TestStand should handle it as infinity.

[James_Grey]

If you are interested in the actual bits involved, TestStand uses IEEE 754 floating point numbers, the same format used by most other programming languages.

Here is a reference:

http://stevehollasch.com/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html