where in Nan defined
Jussi Piitulainen
jpiitula at ling.helsinki.fi
Thu Jan 8 09:55:45 EST 2015
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >
> > True, but that got me thinking: what standard Python math
> > operation evaluates to NaN?
>
> Subtracting infinity from infinity is one easy way.
>
> >>> 1e309
> inf
> >>> 1e309-1e309
> nan
I managed to get inf by arithmetic on finite numbers:
>>> 1e300/1e-300
inf
>>> o = 1e300/1e-300 ; o-o
nan
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