[HN Gopher] NansAreNumbers - An esoteric data type built of NaNs
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       NansAreNumbers - An esoteric data type built of NaNs
        
       Author : shelfchair
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-09-29 07:01 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | RhysU wrote:
       | You had me at NaN.
        
       | longemen3000 wrote:
       | nice!. one thing about NaN is that, because the specification
       | only mentions the exponent part, you have all the mantissa bits
       | free for use, this is the idea behind signalling NaNs, that if
       | you return a NaN for an operation, that value should have some
       | helpful debug information
        
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