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Re: float("nan") in set or as key

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Date Mon, 30 May 2011 03:50:15 +1000
Subject Re: float("nan") in set or as key
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On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:44 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Would there be any advantage to making NaN a singleton? I'm thinking
> that it could make checking for it cheaper in the implementation of
> sets and dicts. Or making NaN unhashable?

Doesn't matter. It still wouldn't be equal to itself, even though it
'is' itself, which will greatly confuse anything that optimizes that
away. Numbers are well-behaved; NaN is not a number; NaN is not
well-behaved. It makes sense... in a way.

Chris Angelico

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Re: float("nan") in set or as key Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> - 2011-05-28 20:28 -0400
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2011-05-28 17:44 -0700
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-29 02:25 +0000
    Re: float("nan") in set or as key Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de> - 2011-05-29 10:27 +0200
      Re: float("nan") in set or as key Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-29 14:41 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-05-29 18:44 +0100
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 18:27 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-05-30 03:50 +1000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Christian Heimes <lists@cheimes.de> - 2011-05-29 20:05 +0200
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-05-29 18:46 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-05-29 20:36 -0700

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