When a program calls a method that behaves in an unexpected fashion, it is said to have encountered an "exception." For instance, if the program attempts to divide a number by zero or load a file ...

Exception handling is also used in C# programming language. So, if you get an idea of how exception handling works in Java, you can easily use it in other programming languages as well.

Divide by zero is just as bad as a null pointer or array out-of-bounds, which I'm assuming are handled similarly. If debug spam is not an option, NaN sounds okay since it fails gracefully without ...

What are my alternatives to handling a divide by zero error, and what are the risks with going with option #1. See the full, original question here.