Sorting NaNs

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Jun 8 22:28:08 EDT 2018


Peter Pearson wrote:
> What applications would have to worry about colliding floats?  I
> don't know.  I'm coming from cryptology, where worrying about such
> things becomes a reflex.

If collisions are something to be feared, then you're into
hash territory, where you're probably going to want *much*
more than even 52 bits.

-- 
Greg



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