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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- Subclass of
- value
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- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/nan
- described by source
- IEEE 754
- has characteristic
- special case
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Wikimedia import URL
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN
- characteristic of
- floating point
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