From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-08-12T11:26:58+09:00
Subject: Re: NaN and Inifinity

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Stok" <mike@ratdog.stok.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: NaN and Inifinity


> In article <B0D86431-CC65-11D7-AFAD-000393803090@mac.com>,
> Scott Thompson  <easco@mac.com> wrote:
> >If I do something like
> >
> >a = Math::log(-1)
> >
> >then a properly takes the value NaN.
> >
> >Is there any way to explicitly assign the variable "a" to NaN (or 
> >Inifinity or -Infinity) to begin with?  I tried finding "NaN" as a 
> >constant but couldn't locate it.  It doesn't appear to be a constant in 
> >Float or Math.

module Math
  Nan = log(-1)
end

Now it is.  :)

Hal