| From: "Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak_at_knm.org.pl>
| Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:42:52 +0200
|
| Aubrey Jaffer <agj_at_alum.mit.edu> writes:
|
| > "NaN is not a real number" addresses this. NaN is not real, so
| > it is an illegal argument to numerical order predicates.
|
| This would be bad. It means that numerical inaccuracy may make a
| comparison illegal. Please don't break IEEE rules.
Numerical inaccuracy already can cause illegal comparisons. Negative
inputs to SQRT, LOG, and EXPT can return non-real numbers which are
illegal input to order predicates.
Received on Fri Oct 13 2006 - 15:32:22 UTC