Also known as Not A Number
thumb|An example of NaN appearing as a calculation error for input N/A on an electronic weather forecast In computing, NaN (), standing for Not a Number, is a particular value of a numeric data type (often a floating-point number) which is undefined as a number, such as the result of 0/0. Systematic use of NaNs was introduced by the IEEE 754 floating-point standard in 1985, along with the representation of other non-finite quantities such as infinities.
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/nan
- described by source
- IEEE 754
- has characteristic
- special case
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN
- characteristic of
- floating point
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Article · Español
NaN, proviene del acrónimo en inglés «Not a Number» (en español: no es un número). Este acrónimo se usa generalmente en algunos lenguajes de programación para expresar un resultado imposible de calcular, como el caso de las raíces negativas, indeterminaciones, etc., retornando NaN como resultado de la operación.
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