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

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On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> wrote:
> Really?  I am claiming that, even if everyone and their mother thought exceptions were the best thing ever, NaN would have been added to IEEE anyway because most hardware didn't support exceptions.  Therefore the fact that NaN is in IEEE is not any evidence that NaN is a good idea.

Uhh, noob question here. I'm way out of my depth with hardware floating point.

Isn't a signaling nan basically the same as an exception? Which would
imply that the hardware did support exceptions (if it did indeed
support IEEE floating point, which specifies signalling nan)?

Chris Angelico

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Re: float("nan") in set or as key Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> - 2011-06-03 13:27 -0700
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-04 06:35 +1000
    Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-05 22:54 +0000
      Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 09:13 +1000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-06 01:21 +0000
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Torek <nospam@torek.net> - 2011-06-06 01:56 +0000
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 14:11 +1000
            Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-06 04:59 +0000
              Re: float("nan") in set or as key Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 15:10 +1000
  Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-04 04:54 +0000
    Re: float("nan") in set or as key Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-03 23:04 -0700
      Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-04 09:35 +0000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-04 20:20 +1000
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-04 14:28 -0700
        Re: float("nan") in set or as key Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-06-04 16:49 -0500
          Re: float("nan") in set or as key Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-06-05 02:03 +0000
            Re: float("nan") in set or as key Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 14:44 -0500

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