MPFR itself is not an IEEE standard, but the existence of the NaN special value is modeled after the IEEE 754 floating point arithmetic.
On Friday, October 17, 2014 7:10:03 PM UTC+1, kcrisman wrote: > > > Sure, and now we have to decide if that "approximation" works best if >>> NaN is considered to be an element of it or not. >>> >> >> Fair enough, but I can tell you already that I'm going to side with the >> IEEE in general and Paul Zimmermann in particular here. >> > > So you can confirm that this would be an IEEE standard? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
