Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Can you explain the scenario where somebody using median will want >> negative NANs to sort to the beginning, below -INF, and positive NANs to >> sort to the end, above +INF? > >
No, and I don’t think anyone really wants that. I think it was proposed as a possible improvement on non-deterministic results, and/or a way to address this issue by only changing how the sorting is done. Whether IEEE total order is useful in some other contexts is a totally separate question. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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