On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> wrote:

> The second line is bit confusing, because the way to check for nan is
> usually via math.isnan.  The report says that identity comparison is
> not done in containers that may be the bug.
I believe that the second-line behavior is the bug since the first one
is correct from a math point of view.

> There are various quirks with nan,inf and -0 and +0's that most often
> is amusing. :)
And, perhaps usually indicates non-conformance to IEEE 754! :-)

-Kaushik

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