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John W. Eaton |
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NaN |
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Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:30:15 -0400 |
On 11-Apr-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
| In trying to implement NaN's for octplot I took some of the code from
| octave, which includes a run-time calculation of NaN
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| Is there any any reason that it was implemented this way and not by
| using the nan function (C99 standard) or strtod("NaN",0), which is
| supposed to be ANSI C?
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| (these two ways were pointed to me by Bruno Rogerri)
Octave has been around longer than c99.
I didn't know about strtod ("NaN", 0), but I'm not sure I would have
used this method anyway, even if I had.
jwe
- NaN, Shai Ayal, 2006/04/11