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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:12:39 -0500 From: Alan Watson <a.watson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Taylor Campbell wrote: > NaN is *not* a numeric result; it's not a number! It represents the > condition of a computation whose meaning is undefined; it's not a > defined result. Your statements about NaNs are correct in the context of mathematical numbers but not in the context of IEEE floating point numbers. I'm definitely not an expert on IEEE 754, and I'd not trust myself to argue anything regarding detailed semantics of it, but I think it's pretty plain & straightforward that what NaN represents is not a number due to an undefined mathematical operation. Can you elaborate on what you meant here?