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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: float("nan") in set or as key
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 23:43:09 -0400
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In article 
Carl Banks <pavlovevidence@gmail.com> wrote:

> pretty much everyone uses IEEE format

Is there *any* hardware in use today which supports floating point using 
a format other than IEEE?