Re: x === x

From	Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: x === x
Date	2017-06-02 22:16 +0100
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In comp.lang.javascript message <ddf720b1-7dcb-4c3b-94c2-a0049e286471@go
oglegroups.com>, Thu, 1 Jun 2017 00:10:36, Julio Di Egidio
<julio@diegidio.name> posted:

>On Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:40:10 UTC+2, Dr J R Stockton  wrote:
><snipped>

...

>> The indistinguishability and inequality of NaNs in JavaScript
>> results from a choice taken by ECMA or by its relevant
>> predecessors.
>
>Nope, it's just due to the rules of the floating-point arithmetic.  Indeed,
>notice that the same is in all languages.


Your naivety is, as is customary, manifest.


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Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-30 16:21 +0200
  Re: x === x John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2017-05-30 19:16 +0100
  Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stockton@physics.org> - 2017-05-31 08:39 -0700
    Re: x === x Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 18:08 +0200
      Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 22:27 +0100
    Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-31 21:03 +0200
      Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 22:12 +0100
    Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-05-31 21:09 +0200
      Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 01:58 +0100
        Re: x === x Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-06-01 05:01 +0200
          Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 14:44 +0100
          Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 21:15 +0100
        Re: x === x Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-06-01 14:17 +0100
    Re: x === x Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-01 00:10 -0700
      Re: x === x Dr J R Stockton <reply1700@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2017-06-02 22:16 +0100

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