Assign NaN, get zero

[Lisandro Dalcin]

On 11/11/06, Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za> wrote:
> NaN (or inf) is a floating point number, so seeing a zero in integer
> representation seems correct:
>
> In [2]: int(N.nan)
> Out[2]: 0L
>

Just to learn myself: Why int(N.nan) should be 0? Is it C behavior?

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