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- Subject: Re: Signed NaN
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:50:31 -0300
> I tried putting 0/0 into the Lua 5.4.0 interpreter and got a value of -nan.
> I am just wondering why the negative sign. I know that the value is
> mathematically undefined, but I sort of expected nan.
This is something from the hardware. If you do that in C, which
generates the obvious machine code, it results in -nan too.
-- Roberto
