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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:02:09 +0200
From: "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk>
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Oh, you've read the IEEE-754 standard, and that's what it says? "We're going 
> to specify this behaviour for NANs just to annoy people" perhaps? 
I was referring to the deliberate choice to enforce IEEE-754 rules in Python. 
There is no force of law that requires Python to do so.

regards, Anders