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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: float("nan") in set or as key
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:04:48 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2011-06-01, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> In article 
> Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> pretty much everyone uses IEEE format
>
> Is there *any* hardware in use today which supports floating point using 
> a format other than IEEE?

Well, there are probably still some VAXes around in odd corners...

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