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| Date | Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:03:08 -0700 |
| From | Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> |
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| Subject | Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes |
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On 07/08/2014 12:50 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >> What you said is: "They just don't appear in normal computation, because the >> >> interpreter raises an exception instead." >> >> I just ran a calculation that created a NaN, the same as 4 - 3 creates a 1, >> and no exception was raised. >> >> Do you have an example where one is? > > The math module functions raise exceptions instead of returning NaN. Ah, so if actual numbers go in, either actual numbers come out or an exception is raised -- good to know, and thanks for clarifying. -- ~Ethan~
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