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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:228139 Archived-At: >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Eggert writes: Paul> NaNs never compare numerically equal to, less than, or greater than any Paul> other floating-point value, even other NaNs. This is part of the IEEE Paul> standard. This part I get. Paul> min and max propagate any NaNs they find. This part I don't understand, since my mental mode of min/max is that they are iteratively applying < or > Anyway, it's fine with me, thanks for answering. Maybe the min/max behavior should be documented. Tom