[HN Gopher] Bit Patterns of Float
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       Bit Patterns of Float
        
       Author : ingve
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2021-09-06 06:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | dvt wrote:
       | I'm not sure why the IEEE's original floating point specs didn't
       | manage to make the NaN "quiet" (position 22) bit be the the
       | leading "sign" bit -- although I'm sure there's a good reason.
       | The NaN vs -NaN distinction is purely representative and has no
       | semantic implications. As opposed to negative infinity or
       | negative zero, for example.
       | 
       | Also worth adding is that NaN comparisons will break
       | catastrophically when using gcc's -ffast-math`.
        
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