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RE: Uninitialized Variables

• Posted by kbochert at ix.netcom.com Mar 24, 2002
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Hi Andy Serpa, you wrote on 3/23/02 10:13:12 PM:

>> I tried your code and it failed for me -- the 'y'
>> case came out "non-NaN"

>
>Boy, what a nightmare.
>
You sure got that right. My method is useless.
Have you noticed that real math (IEEE 754) has
+infinity, -infinity, quiet NaNs, signaling NaNs,
indeterminates, as well as normalized and
denormalized numbers!
Combine that with Eu's 'atoms' which change silently
from integers to doubles.
The best solution may be a DLL that knows how to ask the
floating point processor (nicely) for its secrets.

Karl Bochert

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