Re: reading NaNs Alan Watson 27 Oct 2005 00:32 UTC

Taylor Campbell wrote:
> Why is this not equally applicable to IEEE flonum arithmetic?

It is. I want all inexacts to be pushed off into the library.

But if inexacts are going to be part of the core, they should be IEEE
double precision flonums, because these have the best balance of
performance, availability, and well-defined semantions.

Regards,

Alan
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Dr Alan Watson
Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica
Universidad Astronómico Nacional de México