nifty to Programmer [email protected] • 9 months agoStop using floatsimagemessage-square85arrow-up1783arrow-down135
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-29 months agoEven float4. You get +/- 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, Inf, and two values for NaN. Come to think of it, the idea of -NaN tickles me a bit. “It’s not a number, but it’s a negative not a number”.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•edit-29 months agoI think you got that wrong, you got +Inf, -Inf and two NaNs, but they’re both just NaN. As you wrote signed NaN makes no sense, though technically speaking they still have a sign bit.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoRight, there’s no -NaN. There are two different values of NaN. Which is why I tried to separate that clause, but maybe it wasn’t clear enough.
Even float4. You get +/- 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, Inf, and two values for NaN.
Come to think of it, the idea of -NaN tickles me a bit. “It’s not a number, but it’s a negative not a number”.
I think you got that wrong, you got +Inf, -Inf and two NaNs, but they’re both just NaN. As you wrote signed NaN makes no sense, though technically speaking they still have a sign bit.
Right, there’s no -NaN. There are two different values of NaN. Which is why I tried to separate that clause, but maybe it wasn’t clear enough.