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Re: NaN
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Shai Ayal |
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Re: NaN |
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Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:06:16 +0300 |
On 4/12/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11-Apr-2006, Shai Ayal wrote:
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> | 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)
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> Octave has been around longer than c99.
So this means there is nothing wrong with me using it now as far as you know
> I didn't know about strtod ("NaN", 0), but I'm not sure I would have
> used this method anyway, even if I had.
Can you explain why?
> jwe
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- NaN, Shai Ayal, 2006/04/11
- NaN, John W. Eaton, 2006/04/12