-nan is not number

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-nan is not number

Post by ssqq »

-nan (NaN) should not return true with number?

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> (set 'nan (sqrt -1))
> (number? nan)
true ;; should return nil
Also advise with inf. I think all NaN and Inf are "error status" that may not throw error immediatly.
So they isn't value.

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Re: -nan is not number

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ssqq wrote:-nan (NaN) should not return true with number?

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> (set 'nan (sqrt -1))
> (number? nan)
true ;; should return nil
Also advise with inf. I think all NaN and Inf are "error status" that may not throw error immediatly.
So they isn't value.
Reliably getting nan and inf from the C compiler is not pleasant. It varies between compilers and architectures and platforms. The alternative is to write assembly language... which would really require some paid resources to keep track of all the different types of CPU.
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Re: -nan is not number

Post by rickyboy »

Hello ssqq,

This is what you need: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/newlis ... .html#NaNp.

As a backgrounder, the committee who put together the floating point standard had a reason for admitting things like NaN as floating point "values". Technically they are "numbers" (FP values, really).

http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/faq.html#exceptions
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Post by ssqq »

I see, Reason is ANSI C could not support.

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