Does Python have "not a number" floating point values?

[Paul Magwene]

Janko Hauser wrote:
> 
> This raised a floating point exception on an Alpha machine. At the
> moment this is not portable.
> 
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On FreeBSD (v3.5-Stable) this core dumps as well, as does:

Nan = math.exp(1000)/math.exp(1000)

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Paul Magwene
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