Ie. A value beyond the capabilities of the binary format to represent. Ie. an erroneousness value.

Hmmm ... "erroneous" is not a term that I would normally use here. However, it could be handy for some leverage at some stage, so I'll keep it in mind.

Interestingly, by my reading of Wikipedia, underflow (when the result of a calculation is a smaller number than the computer can actually store in memory) is also an exception in IEEE 754.
So it, too, pertains to "a value beyond the capabilities of the binary format to represent".

Maybe we'll see you referring to an "erroneous zero" at some time in the future ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^15: NaN output by syphilis
in thread NaN output by spikeinc

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