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Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes

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Date 2014-07-09 03:21 +1000
Subject Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>> Now, all this bothers me.  Not that I had to do some work to get stuff
>> to work in an imperfect world.  No, what bothers me is that this
>> behaviour was explicitly and deliberately put in for no good reason.
>
> Oh, you've read the IEEE-754 standard, and that's what it says? "We're
> going to specify this behaviour for NANs just to annoy people" perhaps?

You're confusing IEEE with Adobe. IEEE is pronounced
"Aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!", but it's Adobe that makes people scream
that.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/30/xee_photoshop_psd_code_rant/

ChrisA

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NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 16:53 +0200
  Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-08 17:13 +0000
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 03:21 +1000
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 21:02 +0200
      Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 00:10 +0000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-07-09 00:57 -0400
          Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 06:43 +0000
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 16:52 +1000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 17:08 +0200
          Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-09 16:53 +0000
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 11:26 -0600
            Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 19:44 +0200
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-10 01:13 +1000
        Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-09 18:24 +0200
    Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes "Anders J. Munch" <2014@jmunch.dk> - 2014-07-08 21:25 +0200
  Re: NaN comparisons - Call For Anecdotes Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-07-09 20:07 -0700

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