On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 12:14 AM Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
> But practicality beats purity, and practically, bit pattern CAN > represent numbers. If you want to argue that floats are not numbers, than > we can't use the statistics package, as we can't have any numbers to > perform the statistics on. > I definitely DO NOT want to argue that. You DID argue that, and I'm showing the reduction ad absurdum to your claim. In particular, you proposed to disregard the IEEE-754 spec in regards to those bit patterns that make up NaN's. In contrast, I argue for practically rather than purity. In practical programming terms, a floating point number is no more and no less than something where 'isinstance(x, float)' ... i.e. including NaNs.
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