#12149: float('nan')>1 crashes Sage.
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   Reporter:  was               |          Owner:  AlexGhitza   
       Type:  defect            |         Status:  needs_review 
   Priority:  critical          |      Milestone:  sage-4.8     
  Component:  basic arithmetic  |       Keywords:               
Work_issues:                    |       Upstream:  N/A          
   Reviewer:                    |         Author:  William Stein
     Merged:                    |   Dependencies:               
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Comment(by was):

 Replying to [comment:2 jdemeyer]:
 > One can be more careful by adding `sig_on()`/`sig_off()`:
 [http://sagemath.org/doc/developer/coding_in_cython.html#interrupt-and-
 signal-handling].
 >  I'm not saying one should, I'll leave that to the author of this
 ticket.

 To me, using signal handling instead of simply checking whether or not the
 float is a nan (using isfinite) is a much worse solution to this problem.
 Do you think otherwise, and if so, why?

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