Re: [Fenfire-dev] Re: [Fencommits] libvob: start work on interfaces for the new lob system

[Tuomas J. Lukka]

This is very close to how TeX  works, by the way. Except that it also 
has three "powers" of infinity, for even greater power. See "hfil", 
"hfill", "hfilll".

   Tuomas

Matti Katila wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
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> > +public final class SizeRequest {
> > +
> > +    /** "Infinity". Can be used as the maximum size request of lobs
> > +     *  that can be used at arbitrarily large sizes.
> > +     *  <p>
> > +     *  Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY is not used so that we can play a trick:
> > +     *  if we want to distribute two thirds of the available space
> > +     *  to one component and one third to another, we can use 2*INF
> > +     *  as the size request of one and 1*INF as the size request of the other.
> > +     */
> > +    float INF = (float)Math.pow(2, 1024);
> >    
>
> Nice, you have just redefined infinity to non-infinity ;)  
>
>
>   -Matti
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