[Python-Dev] Why is nan != nan?

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Thu Mar 25 14:25:02 CET 2010


On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
>
> But IEEE 754 was created by pretty clever guys and sure they had a
> reason for define things in the way they are. Probably we are missing
> something.

Well, if we are, then nobody seems to know what!  See the Bertrand
Meyer blog post that was linked to up-thread.

Mark


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