[issue11986] Min/max not symmetric in presence of NaN

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Raymond Hettinger
<report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Undefined ordering means just that.

Means what?  Compare float behavior to

Decimal('1')
>>> Decimal(1).max(Decimal('nan'))
Decimal('1')
>>> max(Decimal('1'), Decimal('nan'))
Traceback (most recent call last):
 ..
decimal.InvalidOperation: comparison involving NaN

Raymond, you don't really need to stop the debate 4 minutes after the
bug has been reported.

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