Float question

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Oct 6 23:51:34 UTC 2007


On Oct 7, 2007, at 1:35 , Ralph Johnson wrote:

> "Float nan = Float nan" is false.   Is it supposed to be false?  I
> suppoes the rule could be that NaN is not equal to anything, even
> itself.

Correct. That's what IEEE specifies IIRC.

> "Float nan == Float nan" is true.

It's the same object.

Is this causing problems anywhere?

- Bert -





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