Why does integer division by zero 1/0 give error but floating point 1/0.0 returns “Inf”?

Question

I\'m just curious about this:

When evaluating 1/0 in Java, the following exception occurs:

Exception in thread \"main\" java.la

Answer 1

That's because integers don't have values for +/-Inf, NaN, and don't allow division by 0, while floats do have those special values.