Re: Testsuite failures of gawk 5.2.0

[Wolfgang Laun]

Well, it's actually imaginary, but it defies rational thinking, doesn't it?
The joke (therefore the 😉) was too complicated, sorry.

Wolfgang


On Fri, 9 Sept 2022 at 12:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 10:03:48 +0200
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Sept 2022 at 07:46, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > >       double d = -sqrt(-1.0);
> > > >
> > > > Sheesh, what a headache.
> > > >
> > >
> >
> > It's irrational, not a "headache". 😉
>
> No, it isn't.  A NaN is "not a number", so the rules of using it are
> "different".  E.g., it's the only FP value that fails both equality
> with itself and inequality with itself.  Some might consider that
> "irrational".
>


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Wolfgang Laun