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arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (21 Oct 2005 14:53 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues John.Cowan (21 Oct 2005 15:59 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues bear (21 Oct 2005 16:39 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (22 Oct 2005 01:17 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues John.Cowan (22 Oct 2005 02:03 UTC)

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Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (23 Oct 2005 20:24 UTC)

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Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (23 Oct 2005 22:25 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (23 Oct 2005 22:30 UTC)

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Re: +nan.0 problems bear (24 Oct 2005 06:04 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (21 Oct 2005 17:15 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (21 Oct 2005 20:24 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (21 Oct 2005 20:32 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (22 Oct 2005 00:26 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (22 Oct 2005 00:45 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (22 Oct 2005 01:22 UTC)

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Re: arithmetic issues Bradley Lucier (23 Oct 2005 19:46 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (23 Oct 2005 20:10 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (23 Oct 2005 19:54 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Jens Axel Søgaard (23 Oct 2005 20:01 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (23 Oct 2005 20:50 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (23 Oct 2005 21:12 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (23 Oct 2005 22:31 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (23 Oct 2005 22:33 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (23 Oct 2005 22:50 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (23 Oct 2005 22:57 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 00:53 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (24 Oct 2005 01:05 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 01:45 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (24 Oct 2005 02:00 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 02:08 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (24 Oct 2005 02:14 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 02:27 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (24 Oct 2005 02:45 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (24 Oct 2005 02:13 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (24 Oct 2005 02:22 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (24 Oct 2005 03:19 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (24 Oct 2005 02:01 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Aubrey Jaffer (24 Oct 2005 02:27 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (24 Oct 2005 03:14 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues John.Cowan (24 Oct 2005 05:37 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Per Bothner (24 Oct 2005 07:05 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 07:58 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (24 Oct 2005 08:05 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Alan Watson (24 Oct 2005 08:25 UTC)

reading NaNs Aubrey Jaffer (24 Oct 2005 15:35 UTC)

Re: reading NaNs Per Bothner (24 Oct 2005 17:35 UTC)

Re: reading NaNs bear (24 Oct 2005 19:23 UTC)

Re: reading NaNs Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk (24 Oct 2005 18:17 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues bear (24 Oct 2005 06:13 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell (24 Oct 2005 06:27 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (24 Oct 2005 07:49 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues bear (24 Oct 2005 16:41 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Thomas Bushnell BSG (24 Oct 2005 07:49 UTC)

Re: arithmetic issues Taylor Campbell 24 Oct 2005 02:22 UTC

   Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 21:12:39 -0500
   From: Alan Watson <xxxxxx@astrosmo.unam.mx>

   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?