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Re: simple float/double question
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Re: simple float/double question


  • Subject: Re: simple float/double question
  • From: James McCartney <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 01:42:05 -0700

On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 11:54 PM, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

how to test if a float/double is a number or not ?
I mean acos(2) for example return NaN, how to know programatically it's NaN ?

Here's one way:

if (!(x <= 0.0 || x >= 0.0)) {
// x is NaN.
}

NaN fails all magnitude comparisons.

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--- james mccartney email@hidden <http://www.audiosynth.com>
SuperCollider - a real time audio synthesis programming language for MacOS X.
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