1. Re: EUPHORIA Digest - 1 Feb 1999 to 2 Feb 1999 (#1999-34)

Well, I suppose it doesn't matter, but then I wasn't sure if it did or =
not... not that I was trying to be nit-picky mind you, Euphoria is =
excellent; but I guess that nan thing still strikes me as odd.

I think I will send Intel that email. blink


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Subject:        EUPHORIA Digest - 1 Feb 1999 to 2 Feb 1999 (#1999-34)

Rod Jackson writes:
> Then "A / A" (i.e., -inf / -inf) is computed, resulting in a negative =
nan

I tested your example with a small C program. I got  -nan
using hardware (Pentium) floating-point. I guess you should
complain to Intel  smile

When you are dealing with nan's, does it really
matter whether you have -nan or +nan. Either way the
result is "not a number", "undefined", "doesn't exist" etc.
If it's not even a number, how can -1 * "not a number"
have any meaning?

Regards,
     Rob Craig
     Rapid Deployment Software
     http://members.aol.com/FilesEu/

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