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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: Questions about NCEG
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Date: 5 Jun 90 21:30:37 GMT
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About external formats of bizarre non-numbers such as NaN.  It's true that NaN
and 0NaN aren't too good because strtod() et al have well-defined behaviour
already on those strings.  So how about something like \377NaN?