From: Harry Ohlsen <harryo@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T11:15:27+09:00
Subject: Re: NaN and Inifinity

Scott Thompson wrote:
> Hrrrm... Okee dokey.  I tried something like that and I get
> 
> irb(main):002:0> b = "NaN".to_f
> => 0.0
> irb(main):003:0> b.nan?
> => false
> 
> There must be something wacky with my Ruby. :-)

Not that wacky.  I get the same.

C:\> ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

Maybe this has changed recently?