Timeline for How to display a division by zero in a grid?
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| Aug 27, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | Michael Kohne | @DennisJaheruddin - actually, on reflection I think blank may not be a good idea - I'd worry that users would take that to mean that the software isn't working, resulting in irritation, or support calls, rather than the user figuring out that they've got a mathematics issue. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 18:34 | comment | added | Sanchises | Infinity would look very weird to me, since this has no useful value and looks like it may be reused in following calculations (for example, the collumn sum would be infinity, instead of having some values ignored). To me, it looks like you provide no data validation and just dump the calculation result, whether logical or not. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 12:32 | comment | added | Mishax | I agree on the ∞ symbol. Just yesterday on Google finance they showed the delta for three-month bonds as ∞% as it jumped from 0.00 to 0.01. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 12:27 | history | answered | Michael Kohne | CC BY-SA 3.0 |