Why float('Nan') == float('Nan') is False

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-02-13, ast <none at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> >>> float('Nan') == float('Nan')
> False

If you think that's odd, how about this?

    >>> n = float('nan')
    >>> n
    nan
    >>> n is n
    True
    >>> n == n
    False
    >>>

> Why ?

IEEE says so.

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