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Re: sumskipnan(nan) = 0 ?
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Francesco Potorti` |
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Re: sumskipnan(nan) = 0 ? |
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Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:33:17 +0200 |
>> sumskipnan(nan) = 0 ?
>I'm guessing that the sum of the input with all the NaN's removed is
>zero. That is the sum of no numbers is considered 0.
That seems logical. Take the set of arguments, remove NaNs, get an
empty set. I think that the sum of an empty set of numbers should be
0. Why should it be different?
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