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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Not A Number in IEEE Math
Keywords: IEEE floating point
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Date: 21 Feb 90 12:26:13 GMT
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Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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I think that that behavior is correct.  

	0.0 * (anything) = 0.0
and
	NaN / NaN = 1.0

Also a NaN/NaN situation is usually treated as 1, but this is definitely
not intended to be a -correct- result.  If you end up with NaNs in your
computation's results, you can't trust the answers you get.

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