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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:34 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 07/09/2014 02:09 PM, Anders J. Munch wrote:
> Ethan Furman:
>>
>> I would suggest you ask for this on the numerical mailing lists instead of here -- and you may not want to offer a
>> beer to everyone that has an anecdote for NaN behavior being useful.
>
> I don't have time to start this discussion over again on another mailing list. Don't anyone on those lists read
> python-list also?

I believe there are a handful, but I don't know how active they are here.  For a straight-up numbers type question, 
especially about NaN and who's using it to what effect, a numbers or scientific mailing list is really the way to go.

--
~Ethan~