Hi Folks,

A peanut gallery look at NaN which is really a bit encoding for various kinds 
of floating point number errors like underflow, overflow, divided by 0, etc. In 
my Fortran past life we used XMISS as a special valu

> On Aug 1, 2017, at 3:21 PM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes it does. NaN is an 'instance' of the Number type (even though it is
> 'Not a Number' ;)  )
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Interesting.
>> 
>> I’m not sure that I realized that NaN passes that test. Does it?
>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2017, at 1:12 AM, Greg Dove <greg.d...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I agree undefined works the same as NaN for many things for example, but
>> it
>>> fails on very basic things like if (x is Number)
>> 
>> 

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