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Re: Reproducibility of minNum() and maxNum() for decimal

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Subject: Re: Reproducibility of minNum() and maxNum() for decimal
From: Jason Riedy <ejr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:01:59 -0700
In-reply-to: <200803161550.m2GFoul7003047@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Michel Hack's message of "Sunday 16 Mar 2008 at 11:14 a.m. EDT (2008-03-16 15:14 GMT)")
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And Michel Hack writes:

P.S.  Note that there is precedent for breaking commutativity, when
NaNs are involved.  I'm aware that this is at a different level.


P.S.  Note that being bitten by non-commutative handling of NaNs is
whole damned reason I wanted a commutative min and max in the first
place.

Jason

References:
- Reproducibility of minNum() and maxNum() for decimal
  - From: Michel Hack

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