Happy Happy Joy Joy (was: On to Hydro)

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap@eros-os.org
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:38:38 -0400


> Given that NaN means "not a number", one could argue that IEEE takes
> the position that infinities are therefore denote numbers, which would is
bad
> terminology, but so it goes.

Since we're getting technical...

The space of floating point values is a tumbler space, I'm not sure that
*any* floating point value should properly be considered a number.