Re: Past uses of NaN?
Replying to Nick MacLaren, Nate Hayes wrote:
> In your paper I see you did suggest min and max should be required
> to percolate NaNs and raise exceptions, just like any other numeric
> (arithmetic) operation.
At one point IEEE 754R had both min/max and minnum/maxnum, with only
the former propagating NaNs. I don't remember what discussion led
to abandoning the distinction and using minnum/maxnum semantics but
dropping "num" from the names.
Michel.
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