And what was there in your post that you thought that I didn't already know?

Absolutely nothing (except see below my sig).
You thought I was replying to you ? ... that I was trying to correct something you had said ? ... that I was trying to improve on something you had said ?
You thought I was writing that post (at least in part) for your own edification ?
After all, my post appeared directly beneath yours ... and it did start with a quote from your post.

Well, it's "none of the above". I wasn't really replying to you, nor was I attempting to correct/improve your post. I was just making a divergent and trivial follow-on comment that was triggered partly by the (quoted) remark you had made, and partly by what Laurent_R had written.
I thought you would pick up on that. (You *can* read minds, can't you ?)
My apologies for that - my intent would have been much clearer if I had positioned my reply beneath Laurent_R's post and been way more explicit wrt what I was trying to say. There was really no need for me to reference your post at all - it's just that it was your remark that triggered the observation.

Shit - all that for something I've written that probably wasn't of much interest to anyone other than me, anyway.
Oh, well ... all I can do is try to do better next time.

Cheers,
Rob

PS: Actually I wasn't sure whether you were aware that you could start with a couple of IV's and generate a NaN. It's pretty trivial, so it's of little consequence whether that had occurred to you or not. It seems a bit odd to me - as someone once said, "NaN is a purely floating point concept".
I thought you *might* find that mildly interesting in some way.
Yeah - I assume way too much :-)

In reply to Re^9: NaN output by syphilis
in thread NaN output by spikeinc

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