Re: Null<double> and arithmetics

Posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on May 07, 2002; 8:20am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Null-double-and-arithmetics-tp2040p2041.html

> > At 04:50 PM 5/5/02 -0500, Vadim Ogranovich wrote:
> > >I heard that there is a IEEE standard + libraries for things like NaN, Inf,
> > >etc. It would be nice if  Null<numeric> conform to that standard.
> >
> > It would indeed.
> > Does anybody have any insight into this? Any URL?
>
> There is one, isn't it called IEEE 854 or something?  
>
> I recall something authored a long time ago by a Berkeley ElecEng. prof.

It's IEEE 754, see  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/

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