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

[Alexander Belopolsky]

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

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Mark Dickinson <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>> Prof. Kahan states that nan < x must signal.
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> Would that be the sentence that starts "In the syntax of C ..." ?

This is just sophistry.   If Python was more popular than C at the
time Prof. Kahan wrote this, he would write "in the syntax of Python."

(Not directly on-topic, but Python 3 seems to be moving towards C
spelling of operators.  I, for one, miss the removal of easy to type
'<>' in favor of finger-twisting '!='.)

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