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  38 <h1>infinity</h1>
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  40 <p>The keyword is used for sub-typing to indicate that:</p>
  41 <ul>
  42   <li>the range of an integer value is not limited,</li>
  43   <li>the range of an floating point value is not limited,</li>
  44   <li>the length of a string is not limited</li>
  45   <li>the numer of elements in <font face="Courier New"><b>set of</b></font> and <font face="Courier New"><b>record of</b></font> is not limited.</li>
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  47 <p>In case of integer and floating point numbers both positive and negative infinity may be used, for strings and <font face="Courier New"><b><a href="of.html">set/record of</a></b></font> only
  48 postivie infinity is meaningful.</p>
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  53   <li><a href="float.html"><b><font face="Courier New" color="#003258" size="4">float</font></b></a></li>
  54   <li><a href="hexstring.html"><b><font face="Courier New" color="#003258" size="4">hexstring</font></b></a></li>
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  67     <h3 align="center"><b><font color="#003258">[</font><font face="Courier New" color="#003258" size="5">-</font><font color="#003258">]</font><font face="Courier New" color="#003258"
  68       size="5">infinity</font> </b></h3>
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  75 <p><a name="double_quotation">Example 1</a>:
  76 <p><font face="Courier New">type integer Cele (-infinity .. 18);<br>
  77 </font>
  78 <p>The values of type Cele are integers less than or equal to eighteen. There is no limit for negative values.</p>
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  80 <p><a name="quotation_inside">Example 2</a>:
  81 <p><font face="Courier New">type float Mergitur (1.0E03 .. infinity);<br>
  82 </font>
  83 <p>Type Mergitur contains only those real values, which are greater than or equal to one thousand. Values except for this range are disallowed.</p>
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  85 <p><a name="quotation_inside">Example 3</a>:
  86 <p><font face="Courier New">type universal charstring Longue length (11 .. infinity);<br>
  87 var Longue v_longue; </font>
  88 <p>The variable v_longue can have at least 11 characters (quadruples). An upper limit is not given.</p>
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  90 <p><a name="relation">Example 4</a>:
  91 <p><code> type record length (42 788 830 .. infinity) of integer Egeeszek; </code>
  92 <p>A valid value of type Egeeszek must contain at least forty-two million seven hundred eighty-eight thousand eight hundred thirty elements. An upper limit is not given.</p>
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  95 <p align="left"><a HREF="BNF.html#infinitykeyword">BNF definition</a> of <font face="Courier New">infinity</font></p>
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