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

Jesus Cea jcea at jcea.es
Thu Mar 25 18:47:54 CET 2010


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On 03/25/2010 04:07 PM, David Cournapeau wrote:
> Yes, indeed. I don't claim having a deep understanding myself, but up
> to now, everytime I thought something in IEE 754 was weird, it ended
> up being for good reasons.

I was wondering if we could bring the question to news:comp.arch
newsgroup. They have the knowledge, and I know there are people from the
IEEE 754 group lurking there. I only have read-only access, nevertheless.

Another relevant group could be news:comp.arch.arithmetic, but I am not
familiar with it.


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