On 4/28/11 8:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Greg Ewing wrote:
Taking a step back from all this, why does Python allow
NaNs to arise from computations *at all*?
The real question should be, why does Python treat all NANs as signalling NANs
instead of quiet NANs? I don't believe this helps anyone.
Actually, Python treats all NaNs as quiet NaNs and never signalling NaNs.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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