Tim Peters wrote: >Neither -- all Python behavior in the presence of float NaNs, infinities, or signed zeroes is a platform-dependent accident.
C99 and Fortran 2003 have IEEE arithmetic. If CPython could be compiled with a C99 compiler, would it also have IEEE arithmetic? Do Python number-crunchers think this is important? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
