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On Mon, 30 May 2011 03:50:15 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> 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.

	As I recall, NaN behaves just like Null does in SQL... Null never
compares equal to Null.

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