Marko Rauhamaa writes:
> Ian Kelly:
>
> > To get nan as a literal just do:
> >
> > nan = float("nan")
>
> True, but that got me thinking: what standard Python math operation
> evaluates to NaN?
All manner of arithmetics gives overflow errors ("Numerical result out
of range") but a literal with a large exponent gives an inf, so:
>>> 0*1e400
nan
(That's on a Python 3.2.3 ... on linux2.)
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