diff --git a/src/ArchimedeanCopula.jl b/src/ArchimedeanCopula.jl
index e0515a61..51234dbf 100644
--- a/src/ArchimedeanCopula.jl
+++ b/src/ArchimedeanCopula.jl
@@ -66,26 +66,18 @@ function Distributions._logpdf(C::ArchimedeanCopula{d,TG}, u) where {d,TG}
     if !all(0 .<= u .<= 1)
         return eltype(u)(-Inf)
     end
-    sum_ϕ⁻¹u = 0.0
-    sum_logϕ⁽¹⁾ϕ⁻¹u = 0.0
+    T = promote_type(Float64, eltype(u)) # the FLoat64 here should be eltype(C) when copulas wil be type agnostic... 
+    logdenom = sum_ϕ⁻¹u = zero(T)
     for us in u
         ϕ⁻¹u = ϕ⁻¹(C,us)
         sum_ϕ⁻¹u += ϕ⁻¹u
-        sum_logϕ⁽¹⁾ϕ⁻¹u += log(-ϕ⁽¹⁾(C,ϕ⁻¹u)) # log of negative here because ϕ⁽¹⁾ is necessarily negative
+        logdenom += log(-ϕ⁽¹⁾(C,ϕ⁻¹u)) # log of negative here because ϕ⁽¹⁾ is necessarily negative
     end
-    numer = ϕ⁽ᵏ⁾(C, d, sum_ϕ⁻¹u)
-    dimension_sign = iseven(d) ? 1.0 : -1.0 #need this for log since (-1.0)ᵈ ϕ⁽ᵈ⁾ ≥ 0.0
-
-
-    # I am not sure this is the right reasoning :
-    if numer == 0
-        if sum_logϕ⁽¹⁾ϕ⁻¹u == -Inf
-            return Inf
-        else
-            return -Inf
-        end
+    numer = abs(ϕ⁽ᵏ⁾(C, d, sum_ϕ⁻¹u))
+    if numer > 0
+        return log(numer) - logdenom
     else
-        return log(dimension_sign*numer) - sum_logϕ⁽¹⁾ϕ⁻¹u
+        return -T(Inf)
     end
 end
 
diff --git a/test/ClaytonCopula.jl b/test/ClaytonCopula.jl
index e36c8dc6..a4c39862 100644
--- a/test/ClaytonCopula.jl
+++ b/test/ClaytonCopula.jl
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
     y = x
     cdf1 = [0.0, 0.1796053020267749, 0.37796447300922725, 0.6255432421712244, 1.0]
     cdf2 = [0.0, 0.0, 0.17157287525381, 0.5358983848622453, 1.0]
-    pdf1 = [Inf, 2.2965556205046926, 1.481003649342278, 1.614508582188617, 3.0]
-    pdf2 = [Inf, 0.0, 1.0, 2 / 3, 0.5]
+    pdf1 = [0.0, 2.2965556205046926, 1.481003649342278, 1.614508582188617, 3.0]
+    pdf2 = [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 2 / 3, 0.5]
     for i in 1:5
         @test cdf(ClaytonCopula(2,2),[x[i],y[i]]) ≈ cdf1[i]
         @test cdf(ClaytonCopula(2,-0.5),[x[i],y[i]]) ≈ cdf2[i]