c++ division by 0

Question

I am running long simulations. I record the results into a vector to compute statistics about the data. I realized that, in theory, those samples could be the result of a di

Answer 1

If you're talking integers then your program should crash upon division by zero.

If you're talking floats then division by zero is allowed and the result to that is INF or -INF. Now it's all up to your code if the program will crash, handle that nicely or continue with undefined/unexpected results.