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From Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com>
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Am 19.06.2016 um 00:08 schrieb Terje Mathisen:

> In particular operations on NaN(s) intentionally breaks associativity,
> look at comparisons.

I found a funny thing: When operating on two NaNs with the x87-FPU,
the lower 51 bits of the result is loaded with the larger value of
the lower 51 bits of both operands.

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Quiet NaN question Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 12:15 +0200
  Re: Quiet NaN question Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 12:22 +0200
  Re: Quiet NaN question Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2016-06-19 01:08 +0300
    Re: Quiet NaN question Bonita Montero <Bonita.Montero@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 13:32 +0200
      Re: Quiet NaN question Terje Mathisen <terje.mathisen@tmsw.no> - 2016-06-20 01:10 +0200
        Re: Quiet NaN question bde@etaplex.bde.org (Bruce Evans) - 2016-06-20 04:24 +0000

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