"/a" is not "/a" ?

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-03-07 08:14, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Yes. Floating point NANs are required to compare unequal to all floats,
>> including themselves. It's part of the IEEE standard.
>
> As far as I remember that's not correct. It's just the way C has
> interpreted the standard and Python inherited the behavior. But you may
> proof me wrong on that.
>
> Mark, you are the expert on IEEE 754.

Steven is correct. The standard defines how boolean comparisons like ==, !=, <, 
etc. should behave in the presence of NaNs. Table 4 on page 9, to be precise.

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Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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