<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Sven Panne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svenpanne@gmail.com" target="_blank">svenpanne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2013/9/22 Mike Meyer <<a href="mailto:mwm@mired.org">mwm@mired.org</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Bardur Arantsson <<a href="mailto:spam@scientician.net">spam@scientician.net</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> Trying to make something whose name is "Not A Number" act like a<br>
> number sounds broken from the start.<br>
<br>
</div>The point here is that IEEE floats are actually more something like a<br>
"Maybe Float", with various "Nothing"s, i.e. the infinities and NaNs,<br>
which all propagate in a well-defined way.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, `Either IeeeFault Float`? ;)</div></div><br></div></div>