[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Formal Comment: NaN should be considered a number, not a real

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:00:14 -0400

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> You claimed that the result is nan.0+1i. It is not in at least one
> major Scheme implementation (and has been that way for a while).

Very well. I claim that according to the standard method of adding
complex numbers, *not* specially hacked to check for NaNs, and combined
with IEEE float arithmetic, the result will be +nan.0+1i.

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