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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] zaphod@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think you got that wrong, you got +Inf, -Inf and two NaNs, but they're both just NaN. As you wrote signed NaN makes no sense, though technically speaking they still have a sign bit.

[โ€“] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago

Right, there's no -NaN. There are two different values of NaN. Which is why I tried to separate that clause, but maybe it wasn't clear enough.