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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:00:36 -0700
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] comparisons with NaN
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> On Wed Aug 21 13:43:54 EDT 2013, bakul@bitblocks.com wrote:
>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:55 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> On Wed Aug 21 12:09:26 EDT 2013, 9fans@hamnavoe.com wrote:
>>>>=20
>>>> Actually it was a test suite that revealed the NaN errors.
>>>> I wouldn't think it's something anyone needs in normal
>>>> day-to-day computation, but sometimes boxes must be ticked.
>>>=20
>>> :-)  it is hard to imagine how this is useful.
>>=20
>> See comments by Stephen Canon in
>> =
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1565164/what-is-the-rationale-for-all-c=
omparisons-returning-false-for-ieee754-nan-values


That this!