Why don't integer division errors occur in floating point division?

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Hello!

I am currently making my way through the documentation, and I was wondering why the floating point division operator doesn’t throw the same errors as the integer division function. In the documentation, it says:

" Integer division (the div function) has two exceptional cases: dividing by zero, and dividing the lowest negative number ( typemin ) by -1. Both of these cases throw a DivideError . The remainder and modulus functions ( rem and mod ) throw a DivideError when their second argument is zero."

When I do these same operations with the ‘/’ operator, I get:

julia> 1/0
Inf

julia> typemin(Int64)/-1
9.223372036854776e18

Why don’t these same errors get thrown when I do floating point division with the ‘/’ operator?

Edit:

I should have read a little bit further before posting. It says a little bit after that this is the result of the IEEE 754 standard.

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