On Jan 21, 3:15 am, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This issue may have been referred to in > <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> but I didn't > entirely understand the explanation. Basically I have this: > > >>> a = float(6) > >>> b = float('nan') > >>> min(a, b) > 6.0 > >>> min(b, a) > nan > >>> max(a, b) > 6.0 > >>> max(b, a) > nan > > Before I did not know what to expect, but I certainly didn't expect > this. So my question is what is the min/max of a number and NaN or is it > not defined (for which I would have expected either an exception to be > raised or NaN returned in each case). > > As a corrollary would I be able to rely on the above behavior or is it > subject to change (to fix a bug in min/max perhaps :-)?
I am definitely NOT a floating point expert, but I did find this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754r#min_and_max P.S. What platform /Compiler are you using for Python? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
