Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
Wait, what? I haven't been paying much attention, but this is backwards. There are multiple representations of NaN in the IEEE encoding;
I think Nick's point is that there aren't enough bits to give the result of every operation its own unique NaN. The payload of a NaN in typical hardware implementations is quite small, because it has to fit into the exponent field. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
