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NaN, min & max #4151

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vicuna opened this issue Nov 7, 2006 · 1 comment
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NaN, min & max #4151

vicuna opened this issue Nov 7, 2006 · 1 comment

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vicuna commented Nov 7, 2006

Original bug ID: 4151
Reporter: Colas
Status: closed (set by @xavierleroy on 2009-08-28T09:06:53Z)
Resolution: fixed
Priority: normal
Severity: minor
Fixed in version: 3.11.2+dev
Category: documentation
Monitored by: @dbuenzli

Bug description

min and max behaviour on the uncomparable float NaN is not documented.

From the documentation on compare, "max 0. nan" may:

  • raise an error: "the comparison predicates treat nan as different from any other float value, including itself"
  • return 0.: "compare treats nan as equal to itself and less than any other float value"

or return nan: "any operation with nan as argument returns nan as result"
(introduction of Floating-point arithmetic section)

It does none of the above, and change between 3.08.3 and 3.09.2 without being in the changelog:
Objective Caml version 3.08.3

max 0. nan;;

  • : float = nan

max nan 0.;;

  • : float = 0.

min 0. nan;;

  • : float = nan

min nan 0.;;

  • : float = 0.

    Objective Caml version 3.09.2

max 0. nan;;

  • : float = nan

max nan 0.;;

  • : float = 0.

min 0. nan;;

  • : float = 0.

min nan 0.;;

  • : float = nan

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vicuna commented Aug 28, 2009

Comment author: @xavierleroy

Clarified documentation in 3.11 release branch.

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