I'll repeat it.

Oops ... was that for *my* benefit ?
You're not telling me anything (here) that I don't already know.
However, looking back at my posts, at no time did I state that explicitly ... though I did make a couple of attempts to make it implicitly apparent - eg a reference to "trick" and the acknowledgement that I wasn't contradicting anything you had said.

I did think it worthy of mention (but even that's probably debatable in hindsight) that in perl you can start with integers and operate on them in such a way that you derive a NaN - because you can't do that in (eg) C, afaik.

I also wondered whether that might have been something like the pathway that led Laurent_R to the view that you could get a NaN from integer overflow.
But it seems Laurent_R was alert to that aspect, anyway.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^7: NaN output by syphilis
in thread NaN output by spikeinc

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